\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}.