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Yellow bile   /jˈɛloʊ baɪl/   Listen
Yellow bile

noun
1.
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger.  Synonym: choler.






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"Yellow bile" Quotes from Famous Books



... distribution of the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, whose mixture (crasis) and cardinal properties, dryness, warmth, coldness, and moistness, form the body and its constituents. To these correspond the cardinal fluids, blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. The fundamental condition of life is the innate heat, the abdication of which is death. This innate heat is greatest in youth when most fuel is therefore required, but gradually declines ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various



Words linked to "Yellow bile" :   body fluid, choler, bodily fluid, humour, liquid body substance, humor



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