Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A decrease in or an absence of bile secretion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, deficiency or want of bile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Deficiency or lack of bile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine Deficiency or want of
bile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : a– + Greek kholē, bile; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, "not") + χολή (kholē, "bile")
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word acholia.
Examples
-
_acholia_; the patient is actually poisoned by the non-removal of those ingredients from the blood which it is the duty of the liver to remove.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.