adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to the liver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hepatic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /hɪˈpætɪk/
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US: /həˈpætɪk/
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US: /hɪˈpætɪk/
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rhymes with -ætɪk
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CMU ARPABET: HH AH0 P AE1 T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Acting on or occurring in the liver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Meaning 3
Of a deep brownish-red color like that of the liver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Meaning 4
Any compound that acts on the liver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A liverwort (kind of plant)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adjective
Meaning 6
pertaining to or affecting the liver
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hepatic ducts
- hepatic cirrhosis
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 7
any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: liverwort
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bryophyte, nonvascular plant
Narrower terms: hornwort, leafy liverwort, scale moss, hepatica, Marchantia polymorpha
History
Etymology
From Middle English epatik, from Late Latin hepaticus, from Ancient Greek ἡπατικός (hēpatikós, “of the liver”), from ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”).
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كَبِدِيّ (kabidiyy) — relating to the liver
- Arabic: كِبْدِيّ (kibdiyy) — relating to the liver
- Belarusian: пячо́начны (pjačónačny) — relating to the liver
- Bulgarian: чернодро́бен (černodróben) — relating to the liver
- Catalan: hepàtic — relating to the liver
- Czech: jaterní — relating to the liver
- Esperanto: hepata — relating to the liver
- French: hépatique — relating to the liver
- German: hepatisch — relating to the liver
- German: Leber- — relating to the liver
- Greek: ηπατικός (ipatikós) — relating to the liver
- Hungarian: máj- — relating to the liver
- Italian: epatico — relating to the liver
- Japanese: 肝臓の (kanzō no) — relating to the liver
- Kazakh: бауырлық (bauyrlyq) — relating to the liver
- Macedonian: црнодробен (crnodroben) — relating to the liver
- Manx: aaneagh — relating to the liver
- Polish: wątrobiany — relating to the liver
- Polish: wątrobowy — relating to the liver
- Portuguese: hepático — relating to the liver
- Romanian: hepatic — relating to the liver
- Russian: печёночный (pečónočnyj) — relating to the liver
- Serbo-Croatian: јетрин — relating to the liver
- Serbo-Croatian: jetrin — relating to the liver
- Slovak: pečeňový — relating to the liver
- Slovene: jetrn — relating to the liver
- Spanish: hepático — relating to the liver
- Swedish: hepatisk — relating to the liver
- Tagalog: pang-atay — relating to the liver
- Ukrainian: печі́нковий (pečínkovyj) — relating to the liver
- Japanese: 肝臓色の (kanzō shoku no) — colour
- Japanese: 肝臓にきく (kanzō ni kiku) — compound
- Spanish: hepática — compound