Hepatic.
"Hep" is the medical prefix that means liver. If not using the word liver, we use the word "hepatic" to describe something pertaining to the liver, such as hepatic function panel (a lab test to evaluate the function of the liver) or hepatitis (an inflammation or infection of the liver). The terms "hep-" and "hepatic" are from the Greek hepar, meaning liver. For example:
Examples of other terms related to the liver, liver function and associated with the liver are:
These are only a very few terms used in talking about the liver or liver disorders in medical terminology. See the related links below for more prefixes, suffixes and root words based on Latin and Greek that are combined to make medical terms.
Hepatic
Subhepatic or infrahepatic are the two terms for under the liver.
Hepatic = pertaining to the liver
the scientific name for the liver is the liver
Hepat/o
Retrohepatic means pertaining to behind the liver.
Hepatoma or Hepatocellular carcinoma is the medical term for liver tumor.
Hepatopathologic means pertaining to liver disease.
Hepatocyte is the medical term meaning liver cell.
hepatocytes
Transhepatic
Liver abscess is the medical term. Hepatoma is a liver tumor.
Epidermolysis is the medical term meaning loosening of the skin.
Hemihepatectomy is the medical term meaning surgical removal of half or a lobe of the liver.
Axillary is the medical term meaning pertaining to the liver.
No such medical term exists
Enterohepatic is the medical term meaning related to the liver and intestines.
LFTs for Liver Function Tests.
Hepatosplenomegaly is enlargement of the liver and spleen.
Extrahepatic means outside the liver
hepatoma
Hepatic dystrophy (?)
hepaic