Definition of Hepatize

1. v. t. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.

Definition of Hepatize

1. Verb. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas (formerly called ''hepatic gas''). ¹

2. Verb. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hepatize

1. to convert tissue into a firm mass [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepatize

hepatitis b surface antigens
hepatitis b vaccines
hepatitis b virus
hepatitis c-like viruses
hepatitis c antibodies
hepatitis c antigens
hepatitis contagiosa canis
hepatitis delta
hepatitis delta virus
hepatitis e virus
hepatitis externa
hepatitis viruses
hepatitises
hepatization
hepatize (current term)
hepatized
hepatizes
hepatizing
hepato
hepato-
hepato-pancreas
hepatobiliary
hepatobiliary imaging
hepatoblast
hepatoblasts
hepatocarcinogenesis
hepatocarcinoma
hepatocele

Literary usage of Hepatize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1788)
"... found that he could hepatize many different kinds of air, and that the hepatic gas was only ..."

2. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"They determine a product dark-coloured from adherent haematin, lax, soft, incompetent to hepatize the lung-texture. This crasis never becomes developed in ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by John Forsyth Meigs, William Pepper (1883)
"Sometimes the abscess is multilocular, each of the purulent cavities being partially separated from its neighbor by a wall of hepatize«! tissue. ..."

4. The London Medical Gazette (1851)
"... more dense than the healthy tissue, yet softer than hepatize<J lung : in the neighbourhood of the larger cavity it was much denser than anywhere else, ..."

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