Meanings
adverbextrahepatically (not comparable)
- not comparableanatomyOutside the liver.
SAA are acute phase proteins in the form of apolipoproteins associated with specific high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and they are expressed extrahepatically in the absence of HDL.
2015 August 4, Saliha Esenboga et al., “CVID Associated with Systemic Amyloidosis”, in Case Reports in Immunology, volume 2015, →DOI
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁eǵʰsteros
- Proto-Italic*eksteros
- Latinexter
- Latinextrā
- Englishextra-
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)yekʷ-
- Proto-Indo-European*yókʷr̥
- Proto-Hellenic*yêkʷər
- Ancient Greekἧπαρ (hêpar)
- Ancient Greekἡπατικός (hēpatikós)
- Late Latinhepaticus
- Middle Englishepatik
- Englishhepatic
- Englishextrahepatic
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishextrahepatically
From extrahepatic + -ally.
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APA
extrahepatically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrahepatically
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“extrahepatically.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrahepatically. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extrahepatically,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrahepatically.
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