hepatize
To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas (formerly called hepatic gas).
transitive
On the right […] were two wells of hepatized water.
To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
transitive
To convert into a substance resembling liver.
transitive
Where it comes from
Ancient Greek [Term?] to be like the liver, to be liver-coloured: compare English hepatite, and (for sense 2) French hépatiser.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hepatize (CC BY-SA 4.0).