hepatic
    adj 1: pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts";
           "hepatic cirrhosis"
    n 1: any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class
         Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green
         seaweeds or leafy mosses [syn: liverwort, hepatic]

Hepatic \He*pat"ic\, a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the liver;
   akin to L. jecur, Skr. yak?t: cf. F. h['e]patique.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic
      diseases.
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   2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic
      cinnabar.
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   3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called
      Hepatic[ae], or scale mosses and liverworts.
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   Hepatic duct (Anat.), any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or
      one of the ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to
      the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under
      Digestive.

   Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.

   Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under
      Cinnabar.
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