any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
<noun.plant> [ adj ]
pertaining to or affecting the liver
<adj.pert> hepatic ducts hepatic cirrhosis
Hepatic \He*pat"ic\, a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the liver; akin to L. jecur, Skr. yak?t: cf. F. h['e]patique.] 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. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepatic[ae], or scale mosses and liverworts.
{Hepatic duct} (Anat.), 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 mercurial ore}, or {Hepatic cinnabar}. See under {Cinnabar}.
Doctors on Wednesday reconstructed a connection between the donor liver and the hepatic artery, a blood vessel that supplies the liver, Dr. Andreas Tzakis said.