hepatic > define

noun

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

adjective

• Pertaining to or affecting the liver.
  • usage: "hepatic ducts"; "hepatic cirrhosis"

• (a.) Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
• (a.) Pertaining to or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae or scale mosses and liverworts.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.