acholia

[ey-koh-lee-uh]

noun

Pathology.

1. lack of a secretion of bile.

Other Word Forms

• acholic adjective
• acholous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of acholia¹

1840–50; < Greek áchol ( os ) lacking bile ( a- a- ⁶ + chol- chol- + -os adj. suffix) + -ia

Example Sentences

It brings about a state of things called 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.

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