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Henx"man (?), n. Henchman. [Obs.]

Hep (?), n. See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.

||He"par (?), n. [L. hepar, hepatis, the liver, Gr. &?;.] 1. (Old ||Chem.) Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, ||sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with ||carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially ||of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (&?;).

2. Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (&?;).

Hepar antimonii (&?;) (Old Chem.), a substance, of a liver-brown color, obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides, and consisting of sulphantimonites of the alkalies; -- called also liver of antimony.

He*pat"ic (?), a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; the liver; akin to L. jecur, Skr. yak&?;t: cf. F. hÈpatique.] 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 HepaticÊ, 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 gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas. -- Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.

||He*pat"i*ca (?), n.; pl. HepaticÊ (#). [NL. See Hepatic. So called in ||allusion to the shape of the lobed leaves or fronds.]

1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.

2. (bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class HepaticÊ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See HepaticÊ, in the Supplement.

He*pat"ic*al, a. Hepatic. [R.]

Hep"a*tite (?; 277), n. [L. hepatitis an unknown precious stone, Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, &?;, the liver: cf. F. hÈpatite.] (Min.) A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

||Hep`a*ti"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, liver + -itis.] (Med.) ||Inflammation of the liver.

Hep`a*ti*za"tion (?), n. 1. (Chem.) Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas. [Obs.]

2. [Cf. F. hÈpatisation.] (Med.) Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

Hep"a*tize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hepatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hepatizing (?).] [Gr. &?; to be like the liver, to be liver-colored, fr. &?;, &?;, the liver: cf. E. hepatite, and (for sense 2) F. hÈpatiser.] 1. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.

On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water.

Barrow.

2. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.

He*pat"o*cele (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, the liver + &?; tumor.] (Med.) Hernia of the liver.

Hep`a*to*cys"tic (?), a. [Hepatic + cystic.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.

Hep`a*to*gas"tric (?), a. [Hepatic + gastric.] (Anat.) See Gastrohepatic.

{ Hep`a*to*gen"ic (?), Hep`a*tog"e*nous (?), } a. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + root of gi`gnesthai to be born] (Med.) Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.

Hep`a*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + -logy.] The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.

Hep"a*to-pan"cre*as (?), n. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + E. pancreas.] (Zoˆl.) A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.

Hep`a*to*re"nal (?), a. [Hepatic + renal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.