American spelling: third-person singular present tense of hepatize; the process of becoming or making tissue liver-like.
From hepatize + -s (third-person singular). Standard American English verb conjugation in medical contexts.
Even though hepatization is less commonly discussed in modern medicine (because we have better imaging and treatment), historical medical texts still use forms like 'the pneumonia hepatizes the lower lobes,' capturing 19th-century medicine's reliance on what the eye could see.
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