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.