Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hepatize

Hepatize , transitive verb

[Greek {not transcribed} to be like the liver, to be liver-colored, from {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, the liver: compare English hepatite, and (for sense 2) French hépatiser.]

1.
To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.
On the right... were two wells of hepatized water. — Barrow
2.
To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.