hepatic

1. 1.

   pertaining to or affecting the liver

   “hepatic ducts”

   “hepatic cirrhosis”

Other forms of hepatic

plural

hepatics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hepatic

What does hepatic mean?

hepatic means "any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hepatic?

hepatic has 3 syllables: he-pat-ic. The stress falls on "pat". In IPA it is /həˈpætɪk/.

What is another word for hepatic?

Close synonyms include liverwort. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hepatic a common word?

hepatic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.