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hepar

hepar noun: liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis (especially potassium).

Noun

hepar (countable and uncountable, plural hepars)

  1. (obsolete) liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis (especially potassium).
  2. (obsolete) Any substance resembling hepar in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide.

hepar meaning in Tamil

hepar in Tamil

ஈரல்

Forms of hepar

pluralhepars

Origin of hepar

Borrowed from Latin hepar (“liver”). Cf. liver of antimony.

Words formed from hepar

Questions about hepar

What does hepar mean?
Hepar means liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis (especially potassium).
What is hepar in Tamil?
Hepar in Tamil is ஈரல். See Hepar meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hepar?
Hepar is a noun.
What is the plural of hepar?
The plural of hepar is hepars.

Words near hepar in the dictionary

  1. hepaciviruses
  2. hepadnaviral
  3. hepadnavirus
  4. hepadnaviruses
  5. hepaprotective
  6. hepar
  7. hepar antimonii
  8. heparan
  9. heparan sulfate
  10. heparanase
  11. heparanases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hepar (page history and authors); hepar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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