Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To convert by engorgement and effusion into a substance resembling liver: as, a hepatized lung, in pneumonia.
- To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen.
- Also spelled
hepatise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called
hepatic gas. - transitive verb To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
impregnate withsulphureted hydrogen gas (formerly called hepatic gas). - verb To
gorge witheffused matter, as thelungs .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek to be like the liver, to be liver-coloured: compare English hepatite, and (for sense 2) French hépatiser.
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