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Of the liver
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hepatic
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Word definitions for hepatic in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN failure ▪ Until now there have been few reports on hepatic failure caused by disorders of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. ▪ The association with pancreatitis has been reported but prognosis usually depends ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hepatic \He*pat"ic\, a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the liver; akin to L. jecur, Skr. yak?t: cf. F. h['e]patique.] Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., epatike , from Old French hepatique or directly from Latin hepaticus "pertaining to the liver," from Greek hepatikos , from hepar (genitive hepatos ) "liver" (see hepatitis ). As a noun, "medicine for the liver," from late 15c.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to the liver. 2 Acting on or occurring in the liver. 3 Of a deep brownish-red color like that of liver. n. 1 Any compound that acts on the liver. 2 A liverwort (kind of plant)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts"; "hepatic cirrhosis"
Usage examples of hepatic.
The portion of the inferior vena cava that lies behind the liver, the retro hepatic portion, is extremely difficult to expose and control in an operation.
Zach had not fared much better than most surgeons with holes in the retro hepatic vena cava, and it drove him crazy.
Seventy-five percent of the wall of the retro hepatic vena cava was destroyed, as well as the veins that drained the right liver.
From the liver it is passed through the hepatic veins into the inferior vena cava, and by these it is emptied into the right auricle.
The hepatic and cystic ducts were pervious and the hepatic duct obliterated.
This is also tonic and anthelmintic, and is valuable in debility, dyspepsia, jaundice, and hepatic affections.
They vary according to the organs most implicated in the hepatic derangement.
The map had routed him out of this pressed tunnel through the inferior vena cava to the right atrium and thence through the right ventricle, the pulmonary arteries, through the valves, to the lungs, the pulmonary veins, crossover to the left side of the heart (left atrium, left ventricle), the aorta--bypassing the three coronary arteries above the aortic valves--and down over the arch of the aorta--bypassing the carotid and other arteries--to the celiac trunk, where the arteries split in a confusing array: the gastroduodenal to the stomach, the hepatic to the liver, the splenic to the spleen.
It had been a struggle to re-isolate the vessel and get a tie around it without disturbing the integrity of the hepatic artery.
She is already developing renal shutdown, and I had to tie off the hepatic artery to control the bleeding of her ruptured liver.
I'm registering a possible aneurysm in the hepatic artery-that should buy us a trip to the hospital for a closer look.