資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hepatize \Hep"a*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hepatized}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Hepatizing}.] [Gr. ? to be like the liver, to be
   liver-colored, fr. ?, ?, the liver: cf. E. hepatite, and (for
   sense 2) F. h['e]patiser.]
   1. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly
      called hepatic gas.

            On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized
            water.                                --Barrow.

   2. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.