Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The jaundice.
- noun In botany, a yellow appearance assumed by wheat and some other plants under the influence of prolonged exposure to moisture and cold.
- noun [capitalized] In ornithology, a Brissonian (1760) genus of birds, approximately equivalent to the modern family Icteridæ; subsequently used with various limitations, or as conterminous with the subfamily Icterinæ; now restricted to the American orioles or hangnests, such as the Baltimore oriole, Icterus galbula. The type is technically considered to be the troopial, Oriolus icterus (Linnæus), now called
Icterus vulgaris . See cut undertroopial . - noun [capitalized] A genus of mammals.
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- noun (Med.) The jaundice.
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- noun medicine An excess of
bile pigments in theblood ;jaundice
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- noun yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia
- noun type genus of the Icteridae
Etymologies
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Examples
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S scleral icterus - yellow discoloration of the whites of the eyes (the sclera).
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I icterus - yellowness of the whites of the eyes (sclera). immune system - the collection of cells and organs that together act to fight infection.
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Acute hepatitis is often suspected and testing done because of the appearance of symptoms such as fever, loss of appetite, and nausea, often accompanied by dark urine, pale stools, and yellow discoloration of the skin and the whites of the eyes (jaundice or icterus).
Dr. Andrew Lange: How to Get a Sexually Transmitted Disease Without Having Sex 2010
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· Associated icterus and renal signs (oliguria ...) indicates yellow fever, leptospirosis ...
Chapter 6 1993
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Theres a peasant here; hes suffering from icterus.
Chapter XXI 1917
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Yes, a chronic and very obstinate case of icterus.
Chapter XXI 1917
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Besides, she has other chapters on nervous affections, on icterus, on fevers, on intestinal worms, on infections due to swamp exhalations, on dysentery, and a number of forms of pulmonary diseases.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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Navigius, Augustin's brother, an excellent man of whom we know nothing save that he had a bad liver -- the icterus of the African colonist -- and that on this account he abstained from sweetmeats.
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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The principal symptom is hematogenous icterus with cyanosis, -- the urine contains blood and blood-coloring matter.
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Gout, icterus, and even cholera (Drasch and Porker) have their own odors.
bilby commented on the word icterus
Etymonline says: "jaundice," 1706, medical Latin, from Greek ikteros "jaundice," also the name of a yellowish bird the sight of which was supposed, by sympathetic magic, to cure jaundice (but the bird died).
April 17, 2018
bilby commented on the word icterus
Icterus icterus, the Venezuelan troupial, is the national bird of Venezuela.
April 17, 2018