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19 words match “JAUNDICE”

JAUNDICE n. 2 definitions
equent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood. Blue jaundice. See Cyanopathy.
JAUNDICED a. 2 definitions
affected with jaundice. Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow. Bp. Hall.
BEJAUNDICE v.
To infect with jaundice.
ANTIICTERIC a. 2 definitions
Good against jaundice. -- n.
BLUE a.
f copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. -- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice. -- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.] --…
CYANOPATHY n.
a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.
GASTRODUODENITIS n.
Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.
HAEMAPHAEIN n.
A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice.
HEPATOGENIC; HEPATOGENOUS a.
Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.
ICTERIC n.
A remedy for the jaundice.
ICTERIC; ICTERICAL a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice.
ICTERITIOUS; ICTERITOUS a.
Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.
ICTEROID a.
Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; as, an icteroid tint or complexion.
ICTERUS n.
The jaundice.
MELANISM n.
A disease; black jaundice. See Mel.
SUFFUSION n.
rocess of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading. To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. Ray.
WEIL'S DISEASE n.
ease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
YELLOW a.
deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice. -- Yellow bark, calisaya bark. -- Yellow bass (Zoöl.), a North American fresh-water bass (Morone interrupta) native of the lower parts of the Mississippi and its tributaries. It is yellow, with several more or less bro…
YELLOWS n.
A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice. His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows. Shak.