hepatic
pronunciation
How to pronounce hepatic in British English:
UK [hɪˈpætɪk]
How to pronounce hepatic in American English:
US [hɪˈpætɪk]
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- Adjective:
- pertaining to or affecting the liver
Word Origin
- hepatic (adj.)
- late 14c., epatike, from Old French hepatique or directly from Latin hepaticus "pertaining to the liver," from Greek hepatikos, from hepar (genitive hepatos) "liver" (see hepatitis). As a noun, "medicine for the liver," from late 15c.
Example
- 1. Another term for acute liver failure is fulminant hepatic failure .
- 2. Lower starting doses may be required for patients with renal or hepatic impairment and elderly patients .
- 3. Most of us don 't know that all of these ' fat types ' are the same , and that there are a few natural ways to lose fat , unless of course you 're considering liposuction or hepatic surgeries .
- 4. The high-throughput cellular array technology used in this research was developed by chien and his lab colleagues a few years ago mainly for stem cell research , but it has not been applied to this type of research before involving hepatic stellate cells .