All English words - page 2407

Meanings of Heparin:

noun

A compound occurring in the liver and other tissues which inhibits blood coagulation. a sulphur-containing polysaccharide, it is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis.

Usage examples:

Blood was collected from untreated albino mice using heparin as the anticoagulant.

Meanings of Heparinize:

verb

Add heparin to (blood or a container about to be filled with blood) to prevent it from coagulating.

Usage examples:

Blood was drawn into a heparinized container

Meanings of Heparinized:

verb

Add heparin to (blood or a container about to be filled with blood) to prevent it from coagulating.

Usage examples:

Blood was drawn into a heparinized container

Meanings of Heparinizing:

verb

Add heparin to (blood or a container about to be filled with blood) to prevent it from coagulating.

Usage examples:

Blood was drawn into a heparinized container

Meanings of Hepatic:

adjective

Relating to the liver.

Usage examples:

Right and left hepatic ducts

noun

Less common term for liverwort.

Meanings of Hepatica:

noun

A plant of the buttercup family with flowers similar to those of the anemone, native to northern temperate regions.

Usage examples:

The forest has not been cut for 300 years, and i found myself surrounded by ground flora such as so…

Meanings of Hepaticae:

plural noun

A class of lower plants that comprises the liverworts.

Usage examples:

Our goal is to write a concise ‘flora of the hepaticae and anthocerotae of central french guiana’.

Meanings of Hepaticas:

noun

A plant of the buttercup family with flowers similar to those of the anemone, native to northern temperate regions.

Usage examples:

The forest has not been cut for 300 years, and i found myself surrounded by ground flora such as so…

Meanings of Hepatics:

noun

Less common term for liverwort.

adjective

Relating to the liver.

Usage examples:

Right and left hepatic ducts

Meanings of Hepatitis:

noun

A disease characterized by inflammation of the liver.

Usage examples:

Sharing needles increases the risk of contracting serious diseases such as hepatitis and hiv.

Meanings of Hepatocellular:

adjective

Relating to or involving liver cells.

Usage examples:

Hepatocellular carcinoma usually occurs in a liver that has already been damaged by illness

Meanings of Hepatocyte:

noun

A liver cell.

Usage examples:

As the inflammation destroys the bile ducts, it spreads and begins to damage cells of the liver cal…

Meanings of Hepatologist:

noun

A doctor who specializes in treating diseases of the liver (= a large organ that cleans the blood and produces bile)

Usage examples:

Patients should be monitored closely by a hepatologist., he was given a life-saving liver transplan…

Meanings of Hepatology:

noun

The treatment of diseases of the liver (= a large organ that cleans the blood and produces bile)

Usage examples:

He is chief of hepatology and medical director of liver transplantation at the hospital.

Meanings of Hepatoma:

noun

A cancer of the cells of the liver.

Usage examples:

I can recall one patient who clinically seemed to have gall stones but who eventually proved to hav…

Meanings of Hepatomas:

noun

A cancer of the cells of the liver.

Usage examples:

I can recall one patient who clinically seemed to have gall stones but who eventually proved to hav…

Meanings of Hepatomata:

noun

A cancer of the cells of the liver.

Usage examples:

I can recall one patient who clinically seemed to have gall stones but who eventually proved to hav…

Meanings of Hepatomegaly:

noun

Abnormal enlargement of the liver.

Usage examples:

All of these can be shown by hematologic abnormalities or hepatomegaly with liver test perturbation.

Meanings of Hepatopancreas:

noun

Technical term for digestive gland.

Meanings of Hepatopulmonary:

noun

A medical condition in which someone finds it difficult to breathe and has low oxygen levels in the blood because of problems in the blood vessels of the lungs due to liver disease

Usage examples:

Liver transplant is the only cure for hepatopulmonary syndrome.

Meanings of Hepatotoxic:

adjective

Damaging or destructive to liver cells.

Usage examples:

Thus, clinicians may consider regimens with fewer potentially hepatotoxic agents in patients with a…

Meanings of Hepcat:

noun

A stylish or fashionable person, especially in the sphere of jazz or popular music.

Usage examples:

It's rock's most waggish hepcat, on the third of his nine showbiz lives

Meanings of Hepcats:

noun

A stylish or fashionable person, especially in the sphere of jazz or popular music.

Usage examples:

It's rock's most waggish hepcat, on the third of his nine showbiz lives

Meanings of Hephaesteum:

proper noun

The god of fire and of craftsmen, son of zeus and hera. he was a divine metalworker who was lame as the result of having interfered in a quarrel between his parents.

Meanings of Hephaestian:

proper noun

The god of fire and of craftsmen, son of zeus and hera. he was a divine metalworker who was lame as the result of having interfered in a quarrel between his parents.