hepato-, hepat-, hepatico-

Pain in the liver; hepatodynia: Some reasons for the large complicated glandular organ in the upper right position of the abdominal cavity to cause suffering in a patient can be a fatty liver disease, liver cancer, or an infection, just to name a few.

Excision or the surgical removal of all (total hepatectomy) or part (partial hepatectomy) or (subtotal hepatectomy) of the liver.

A medical operation that connects the hepatic duct straight into the duodenum: When the normal bile pathway is locked or damaged, the procedure of a hepaticoduodenostomy permits bile to flow into the small intestine.

An endoscopic procedure that forms a direct connection from the hepatic duct of the liver and the intestine: In medical school, Jeff learned that the procedure of hepaticoenterostomy allowed bile to move pass a plugged or injured duct straight into the digestive tract.

A surgical operation in which the hepatic bile duct is linked to the stomach: By the method of a hepaticogastrostomy procedure, bile can then flow or drain directly into the stomach in order to bypass an obstruction in the biliary system.

Removal of a stone from a hepatic (liver) duct.

1. The crushing or fragmentation of a biliary calculus in the hepatic (liver) duct.
2. Crushing a biliary calculus in a hepatic duct.

A medical procedure to create an artificial opening into the hepatic duct: In her medical book, Judy read about the operation called hepaticostomy in which a hole was created to open into the duct that conveyed the bile away from the liver.