HEPATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hepatic mean? 

• HEPATIC (noun)
  The noun HEPATIC has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses

  Familiarity information: HEPATIC used as a noun is very rare.

• HEPATIC (adjective)
  The adjective HEPATIC has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to or affecting the liver

  Familiarity information: HEPATIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEPATIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hepatic; liverwort

Hypernyms ("hepatic" is a kind of...):

bryophyte; nonvascular plant (any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hepatic"):

hornwort (liverworts with slender hornlike capsules)

leafy liverwort; scale moss (moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves; usually epiphytic)

hepatica; Marchantia polymorpha (a common liverwort)

Holonyms ("hepatic" is a member of...):

class Hepaticae; class Hepaticopsida; Hepaticae; Hepaticopsida (liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales)

• HEPATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to or affecting the liver

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

hepatic cirrhosis

Pertainym:

liver (large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes)

 Context examples 

A term referring to fatty replacement of the hepatic parenchyma which is not related to alcohol use.

(Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a regulatory role in vascular, renal and hepatic development.

(NOTCH4 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

NAG, which is formed by the hepatic enzyme N-acetylglutamate synthase (NAGS), is an essential allosteric activator of the enzyme carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS 1).

(Carglumic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

But he says that in "animal studies, it has been shown that microplastics may cause intestinal damage, remodeling of the intestinal villi, distortion of iron absorption and hepatic stress."

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

Adenocarcinomas that arise from the intrahepatic bile ducts or the hepatic ducts are called cholangiocarcinomas.

(Bile Duct Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-chemotherapeutic embolization involving the injection of small particles through a catheter in the hepatic artery.

(Bland Embolization, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes neurogenic locus notch homolog protein 4 protein, is involved in receptor-ligand interactions and may play a role in vascular, renal and hepatic development.

(NOTCH4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Relevant elements of medical history, including preexisting medical conditions, events and facts (e.g., allergies, race, pregnancy, smoking and alcohol use, hepatic/renal dysfunction, etc.) not listed in MedWatch form.

(Other Personal Medical History, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, this agent may be associated with pulmonary, hepatic, and hematologic toxicities.

(PCNU, NCI Thesaurus)

Pemoline has been withdrawn from the U.S. market because of the agent's association with life threatening hepatic failure.

(Pemoline, NCI Thesaurus)