hepático

hepatic

adjective eh-PAH-tee-koh Rare

Origin: from Greek hēpatikos, 'of the liver'

Also means

liver (as modifier)

Usage Note

Hepático/hepática is a medical adjective meaning 'relating to the liver' — insuficiencia hepática ('liver failure'), enfermedad hepática ('liver disease'), vena hepática ('hepatic vein'). It is used almost exclusively in clinical or scientific contexts; in everyday speech people say del hígado instead: una enfermedad del hígado ('a liver disease'). The noun hígado ('liver') is the everyday word; hepático is for medical registers.

Examples

"El médico detectó una lesión hepática en la ecografía."

Natural Translation

The doctor detected a hepatic lesion on the ultrasound.

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