Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Surrounding the liver: noting the fibrous connective tissue which invests and, as the capsule of Glisson, penetrates that organ to invest the different divisions of hepatic substance proper.
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- adjective anatomy Surrounding the
liver
Etymologies
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peri- + hepatic
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