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.