Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 gas} (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.

   {Hepatic mercurial ore}, or {Hepatic cinnabar}. See under
      {Cinnabar}.