hepatic

Adjective modifier

• impaired: Zarontin should be used with caution in patients with impaired hepatic or renal function.
• normal: Patients were also screened for normal hepatic and renal functions.

Modifies a noun

• insufficiency: Patients with hepatic insufficiency: No dose adjustment is required.
• encephalopathy: The frequency of hepatic encephalopathy was similar in the two groups.
• flexure: The lower margin should be visible behind the hepatic flexure, looping down medial to the upper pole of the kidney.
• impairment: Exercise caution in animals with renal or hepatic impairment.
• resection: A curative hepatic resection may be possible in selected patients.
• lipidosis: When a tortoise hasn't eaten enough food for a while it is prone to hepatic lipidosis.

Modifying Another Word

• rarely: Others: Rarely hepatic dysfunction, headache, dizziness, hearing disturbance.

Noun used with modifier

• and/or: Dosing in children with impaired renal and/or hepatic function has not been studied.
• first-pass: Like many beta-blockers oxprenolol undergoes substantial first-pass hepatic metabolism.
• serum: Steroids may cause enlargement of the liver ( hepatomegaly ) with increased serum hepatic enzymes.