Hepatic — Defs

01 a. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

1.
Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
2.
Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
3.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.(Bot.)

Phrases & compounds

Hepatic duct — 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 — sulphureted hydrogen gas.

Hepatic mercurial ore — See under Cinnabar.