icterus
Americannoun
noun
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pathol another name for jaundice
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a yellowing of plant leaves, caused by excessive cold or moisture
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Etymology
Origin of icterus
1700–10; < Latin < Greek íkteros jaundice, a yellow bird said to cure jaundice when seen
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Other species of icterus also frequent the vast cattle-herds of the South American plains.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
The inirritability of the gall-bladder probably occasions one kind of icterus, or jaundice; which is owing to whatever obstructs the passage of bile into the duodenum.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The principal symptom is hematogenous icterus with cyanosis,—the urine contains blood and blood-coloring matter.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
In the Philippines it is used extensively as a diaphoretic and emmenagogue and in icterus, intestinal colic and dysmenorrhœa; externally for skin diseases, contusions and atonic ulcers.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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