hepatic
Syllables: he·pat·ic/hɪˈpætɪk/US/həˈpætɪk/
hepatic adjective: of or relating to the liver.
Adjective
hepatic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the liver.
- Acting on or occurring in the liver.
- Of a deep brownish-red color like that of the liver.
- In the coal district of Ou-ma-too, a manufacture of sulphate of iron, or green vitriol, is established. A quantity of hepatic iron pyrites, mixed with an equal amount of coal, both being broken into small similar-sized fragments, is accumulated into a pyramidal form, and coated carefully over with...1800, George Newenham Wright et al., China..., page 65
- Polyhydrite, a silicate of oxide of iron from Breitenbrun, Saxony, is of a hepatic color, vitreous lustre and opaque...1842, Dr. Lewis Feuchtwanger, “Mineralogical Notices”, in The American journal of science and arts, page 386
Noun
hepatic (plural hepatics)
- Any compound that acts on the liver.
- A liverwort (kind of plant)
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii
hepatic meaning in Hindi, Tagalog and Arabic
hepatic in Hindi
- relating to the liver
- यकृतीय yakŕtīya
hepatic in Tagalog
- relating to the liver
- pang-atay
hepatic in Arabic
- relating to the liver
- كَبِدِيّ kabidiyy, كِبْدِيّ kibdiyy
Examples of hepatic in a sentence
- It was not of the usual hepatic color ; in this case it presented a deep purple-black...1872, “Remarks on Longevity”, in The Medical and surgical reporter, page 104:
- Among the most striking to the internal modifications is the gradual change of the liver from the characteristic hepatic color to a bright green.1893, The Wilder Quarter-Century Book: A Collection of Original Papers, page 438:
Forms of hepatic
| plural | hepatics |
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Origin of hepatic
From Middle English epatik, from Late Latin hepaticus, from Ancient Greek ἡπατικός (hēpatikós, “of the liver”), from ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).
Words formed from hepatic
- adipohepatic
- anhepatic
- antihepatic
- cardiohepatic
- cholehepatic
- cystohepatic
- duodenohepatic
- enterohepatic
- erythrohepatic
- extrahepatic
- gastrohepatic
- hemihepatic
- hepatic air
- hepatical
- hepatically
- hepatic cancer
- hepatic capsulitis
- hepatic cinnabar
- hepatic duct
- hepatic flexure
- hepatico-
- hepatic portal vein
- hepatic tanager
- hepatic vein
- infrahepatic
- intrahepatic
- neohepatic
- nonhepatic
- pancreaticohepatic
- parahepatic
- perihepatic
- portohepatic
- posthepatic
- prehepatic
- retrohepatic
- splenohepatic
- steatohepatic
- subhepatic
- suprahepatic
- transhepatic
- unhepatic
- hepaticology
Phrases with hepatic
Words that rhyme with hepatic
- automatic
- chromatic
- emphatic
- static
- systematic
- idiomatic
- attic
- hexachromatic
- thematic
- aromatic
- democratic
- lymphatic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- schematic
- adiabatic
- aristocratic
- asymptomatic
- athematic
- autocratic
- axiomatic
- chiasmatic
- erratic
- fanatic
- fluorochromatic
- interchromatic
- phlegmatic
- prismatic
- psychosomatic
- quadchromatic
- rheumatic
- sciatic
- stromatic
- aerobatic
- altermatic
- aposematic
- asthmatic
- bathochromatic
- bizygomatic
- bureaucratic
- chorochromatic
- chromocratic
- circumzygomatic
- coccochromatic
- curatic
- diabatic
- dyschromatic
- endolymphatic
- episematic
- epistatic
- frontozygomatic
- glymphatic
- goniochromatic
- graphematic
- herostratic
- hydroinformatic
- idiosyncratic
- immunochromatic
- infrazygomatic
- interzygomatic
- katabatic
- kinechromatic
Questions about hepatic
- What does hepatic mean?
- Hepatic means of or relating to the liver.
- What is hepatic in Hindi?
- Hepatic in Hindi is यकृतीय (yakŕtīya). See Hepatic meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hepatic in a sentence?
- It was not of the usual hepatic color ; in this case it presented a deep purple-black...
- What part of speech is hepatic?
- Hepatic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hepatic?
- Hepatic is pronounced /hɪˈpætɪk/ (UK).
Words near hepatic in the dictionary
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