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Hepatic means of the liver — the large organ on the right side of your body that cleans the blood and helps you digest food. You meet this word in medical English: the hepatic artery, hepatic failure, hepatic cells.
Hepatic肝的 means of the liver就是肝的意思 —— the large organ on the right side of your body指你身體右側那個清血、幫助消化的大器官, that cleans the blood and helps you digest food. You你 meet this word in medical English會在醫學英文裡看到這個字: the hepatic artery, hepatic failure, hepatic cells像hepatic artery肝動脈、hepatic failure肝衰竭、hepatic cells肝細胞這些說法.
Doctors and textbooks like it because the old Greek adjective sits on charts. Ordinary people almost always say liver instead: liver disease, not hepatic disease, unless they are reading a hospital letter.
Doctors and textbooks醫生和教科書 like it喜歡用這個字 because the old Greek adjective sits neatly on charts因為這個古希臘來的形容詞放在圖表上很整齊好用. Ordinary people一般人 almost always say liver instead幾乎都還是說liver就好, liver disease就說liver disease肝病, not hepatic disease而不是hepatic disease, unless they are reading a hospital letter除非他們是在看醫院的信.
Though actually, some illness names keep hepatic even in the news, so will see it. It is an adjective. It has nothing to do with seven (that is hept-, as in ), and nothing to do with the hip.
Though actually不過事實上, some illness names有些病名 keep hepatic even in the news在新聞裡還是會保留hepatic這個字, so learners will see it所以學習者還是會看到它. It它 is an adjective是一個形容詞. It它 has nothing to do with seven跟數字七沒有關係, that is hept- as in heptagon七的字根是hept-，就像heptagon七邊形那樣, and nothing to do with the hip也跟hip臀部沒有關係.
組成From Middle English epatik, from Late Latin hepaticus, from Ancient Greek ἡπατικός (hēpatikós, of the liver), from ἧπαρ (hêpar, liver).
同家族的字
- hepatitisinflammation of the liver; same hepat- stem from Greek hêpar
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hepaticadj/hɪˈpætɪk/
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Of or relating to the liver.
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Acting on or occurring in the liver.
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Of a deep brownish-red color like that of the liver.
- In the coal district of Ou-ma-too, a manufacture of sulphate of iron, or green vitriol, is established. A quantity of hepatic iron pyrites, mixed with an equal amount of coal, both being broken into small similar-sized fragments, is accumulated into a pyramidal form, and coated carefully over with lime-plaster. By this process much heat is generated and extricated, and the heap remains untouched until the smoke has totally subsided. The mixture is then removed, thrown into water, and submitted to heat, when crystals of sulphate of iron are obtained by evaporation.
- Polyhydrite, a silicate of oxide of iron from Breitenbrun, Saxony, is of a hepatic color, vitreous lustre and opaque...
hepaticnoun/hɪˈpætɪk/
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Any compound that acts on the liver.
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A liverwort (kind of plant)
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。