Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Consolidation of substance or tissue, as of the lungs in pneumonia, resulting in a liver-like solidification.
- noun The act of impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.
- noun Also spelled
hepatisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.), obsolete Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.
- noun (Med.) Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The conversion into a substance resembling the
liver ; a state of thelungs whengorged witheffused matter, so that they are no longerpervious to the air.
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Examples
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_The course of croupous pneumonia_ is typical, and unless it terminates fatally in the first stage, the periods of congestion, hepatization and resolution follow each other in regular manner.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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As she was with calf, the lungs of the foetus were examined, disclosing a beautiful state of red hepatization.
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On slicing the lungs in these cases, hepatization is observed, presenting a very peculiar appearance, which is, in a great measure, due to the arrangement of the lung-tissue in cattle.
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The substance of the lungs often presents a reddish-gray hepatization throughout almost its whole extent.
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The absence of respiratory murmur indicates extensive hepatization of one lung; a circumstance, however, of rare occurrence.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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_hepatization_ is characterized by an absence of sound over the diseased area.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
chained_bear commented on the word hepatization
"In lobar pneumonia, entire lobes become consolidated and transformed into a liverlike mass—hence the word 'hepatization' to describe it. A hepatized lobe can turn various colors depending on the stage of disease; grey hepatization, for example, indicates that various kinds of white blood cells have poured into the lung to fight an infection."
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 244
February 16, 2009