【化】 肝辰砂

Hepatic \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}.


Cinnabar \Cin"na*bar\, n. [L. cinnabaris, Gr. ?; prob. of
Oriental origin; cf. Per. qinb[=a]r, Hind. shangarf.]
1. (Min.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red
crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is
used in medicine.

2. The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment;
vermilion.

{Cinnabar Gr[ae]corum}. [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the
Greeks.] (Med.) Same as {Dragon's blood}.

{Green cinnabar}, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of
cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire.

{Hepatic cinnabar} (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a
liver-brown color and submetallic luster.