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prehepatic

prehepatic adjective: anterior to the liver.

Adjective

prehepatic (not comparable)

  1. anterior to the liver.
  2. upstream of the liver in the circulation of the hepatic portal system; and thus, before the metabolic effect of the liver.
    • Administration of intravenous edoxaban with and without rifampin may have differentiated the prehepatic versus hepatic effects of rifampin on parent and metabolite exposure.2015 June 12, Jeanne Mendell et al., “The Effect of Rifampin on the Pharmacokinetics of Edoxaban in Healthy Adults”, in Clinical Drug Investigation, volume 35, →DOI

Antonyms of prehepatic

Origin of prehepatic

From pre- + hepatic.

Questions about prehepatic

What does prehepatic mean?
Prehepatic means anterior to the liver.
What part of speech is prehepatic?
Prehepatic is an adjective.

Words near prehepatic in the dictionary

  1. prehensorial
  2. prehensors
  3. prehensory
  4. preheparinised
  5. preheparinized
  6. prehepatic
  7. preheritance
  8. preheroic
  9. preherpetic
  10. prehesternal
  11. preheterosexual

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