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Hepatic [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

HEPAT'IC

Hepatic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to the liver; as hepatic gall; hepatic pain; hepatic artery; hepatic flux.

2. Hepatic air or gas, is a fetid vapor or elastic fluid emitted from combinations of sulphur with alkalies, earths and metals.

3. This species of air is now called sulphurated hydrogen gas.

4. Hepatic mercurial ore, a mineral of a reddish, or reddish brown, or dark red color. Its streak is dark red, and has some luster. It occurs in compact masses, with an even or fine grained fracture.

5. Hepatic pyrite, hepatic sulphuret of iron. During the process of decomposition of this ore, by which the sulphur is more or less disengaged, the pyrite is converted, either wholly or in part, into a compact oxyd of iron of a liver brown color; hence its name.

Hepatic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Hepatica [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.

2. Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.

Hepatica Encyclopedia Britannica

HEPATICA. See Liverwort.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 11, p. 678
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Hepaticae [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Hepatica

Hepatical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hepatic.