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
Other Word Forms
- icteric adjective
Etymology
Origin of icterus
1700–10; < Latin < Greek íkteros jaundice, a yellow bird said to cure jaundice when seen
Example Sentences
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Other species of icterus also frequent the vast cattle-herds of the South American plains.
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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.
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Some use them internally in doses of 4 grams to cure icterus.
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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.
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The existence of accidental nigrities rests on well-established facts which are distinctly different from the pigmentation of purpura, icterus, or that produced by metallic salts.
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