British spelling: the present participle of hepatise; the ongoing process of becoming or making tissue liver-like.
From hepatise + -ing (present participle). British medical texts use this form when describing the active, ongoing process of tissue transformation during disease.
Reading historical medical notes about a 'hepatising pneumonia' gives you a real sense of how severe the infection was—the doctors were literally watching the patient's lung tissue change and solidify into something that looked and felt like liver tissue.
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