How to Use hepatic in a Sentence

hepatic

adjective
  • Huge weight off the hepatic artery on that last one, can’t thank you enough.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The hot water hose is the hepatic artery that supplies blood to the liver and pancreas.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • These branch off into larger ducts and, finally, the right and left hepatic ducts.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The liver and hepatic system are part of the digestive tract.
    — Kelly Burch Published, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Over time, liver damage and disease can lead to liver (hepatic) failure.
    — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 22 July 2024
  • The common hepatic duct connects to the cystic duct to form the common bile duct, which then carries bile to the small intestine.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The Cambridge biotech’s new drug is called givosiran and treats a condition called acute hepatic porphyria.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The donor sample was selected for a high abundance of two types of bacteria that are depleted in hepatic encephalopathy.
    — Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Only half of the people in one trial for givosiran showed a complete elimination of the attacks that can be a symptom of acute hepatic porphyria.
    — Kate Sheridan, STAT, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Bausch was working on a treatment for hepatic encephalopathy, a condition where toxins build up in the blood, hurting brain function, in patients with liver disease.
    — Christina Cheddar Berk,liz Napolitano, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The medicine is intended to treat a rare genetic condition called acute hepatic porphyria that can cause attacks of severe abdominal pain.
    — Kate Sheridan, STAT, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The increase was found in certain types of cancer including leukemias, lymphomas, brain tumors, hepatic tumors, and gonadal germ cell tumors, according to the study.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The biotech has focused on treating rare genetic conditions such as acute hepatic porphyria, which can cause attacks of severe abdominal pain.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Acute liver failure, also known as fulminant hepatic failure, is a rare but life-threatening condition in which the liver loses function.
    — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Her mother had hepatic encephalopathy, an ammonia buildup in her body resulting from cirrhosis that causes brain dysfunction.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2025
  • The heavy and prolonged use of alcohol — which can harm the liver, causing liver disease — may also give rise to a critical brain disorder called hepatic encephalopathy.
    — Kelly Santana Banks, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In traditional medicine, the leaves were used as an herbal remedy for a wide variety of ailments, including gastric, hepatic, and renal disorders.
    — Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • These symptoms often indicate underlying concerns that may be affecting your hepatic and biliary systems.
    — Joy Emeh, Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The condition is called hepatic encephalopathy, a complication of cirrhosis.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In mammals, hepatic steatosis (fatty liver) is a pathological condition.
    — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2015
  • Treatment The management of hepatic adenomas largely depends on their size, symptoms, and the individual’s overall health.
    — Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Thirteen out of the 14 people were hospitalized with acute renal and hepatic failure and two of the patients reportedly also had severe pulmonary involvement.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Young learned that her father had stage four hepatic encephalopathy (HE), a neurological disorder due to chronic, severe liver disease.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Apparently the powers that be didn’t think this episode was sad enough, so there’s also Jo’s story line in which her hepatic pregnancy patient Val, who has still not seen her daughter Luna, dies.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Deaths from most types of liver diseases due to alcohol consumption increased in those years, including alcoholic fatty liver and alcoholic hepatic failure in addition to cirrhosis.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
  • Common side effects include abdominal pain, diarrhea, insomnia, back pain, hot flush and elevated hepatic transaminases, the agency says.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
  • Certain metabolic adaptations in migratory birds and fish cause a natural hepatic steatosis, and proponents of foie gras use this observation to argue that the condition is not pathological in those species.
    — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2015
  • Key Takeaways One rare complication that can occur from taking hormonal birth control is the development of benign or non-cancerous growths on the liver called hepatic adenomas.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In high doses, fructose is converted to fat in your liver, and the buildup of fat is linked to metabolic dysfunctions like hepatic insulin resistance, which drive type 2 diabetes, Della Corte explained.
    — Brian Mastroianni, Health, 4 July 2025
  • Sinclair identified the key role of resveratrol as a regulator of hepatic glucose and lipid metabolism in laboratory experiments.
    — Irene Coltrinari, Vogue, 13 June 2024

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