different between hepatite vs hepatize

English

Etymology

Latin hepatitis, an unknown precious stone, from Ancient Greek ???? (hêpar, “liver”); compare French hépatite.

Noun

hepatite (countable and uncountable, plural hepatites)

1. (mineralogy, dated) A variety of barite that emits a foetid odour when rubbed or heated.
   • 1823 [1816], William Phillips, An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy, 3rd Edition, page lii,

     Carbon forms the basis of several of the combustibles; as coal, bitumen, amber, &c.; and it enters into the composition of a few minerals in small proportion; in the Aberthaw limestone, the hepatite, semi-opal, and in clay-slate, not exceeding 1 or 2 per cent.; […] .

Translations

Further reading

• Baryte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Noun

hepatite f (plural hepatites)

1. (medicine) hepatitis

Portuguese

Noun

hepatite f (plural hepatites)

1. (medicine) hepatitis

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek to be like the liver, to be liver-coloured: compare English hepatite, and (for sense 2) French hépatiser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?p?ta?z/

Verb

hepatize (third-person singular simple present hepatizes, present participle hepatizing, simple past and past participle hepatized)

1. (transitive) To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas (formerly called hepatic gas).
   • 1806, Sir John Barrow, Travels into The Interior of Southern Africa

     On the right […] were two wells of hepatized water.

2. (transitive) To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
3. (transitive) To convert into a substance resembling liver.

Anagrams

• aphetize