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A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection. Gwilt.

See Cantabile.

A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.

One who manages the running of an automobile; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.

erized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.

Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. -- n.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.

The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

ss, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile. Cholic acid (Chem.), a complex organic acid found as a natural constituent of taurocholic and glycocholic acids in the bile, and extracted as a resinous substance, convertible under the influence of ether into white crystals.

Bile; choler. [Obs.] Chaucer.

re pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. -- Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic…

The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.

nsparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavently bodies. -- Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in…

tic duct, the duct from the gall bladder which unites with the hepatic to form the common bile duct. -- Cystic worm (Zoöl.), a larval tape worm, as the cysticercus and echinococcus.