yellow bile

noun

1. one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing anger; choler.

yellow bile

noun

1. archaic.
   one of the four bodily humours, choler

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow bile¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

According to this celebrated theory there are four humors in the body—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

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My sound, sensitive liver rests gently with its thin yellow bile in sweet content.

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Another is that which they make about the secretion of yellow bile.

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These four "humours" were blood, phlegm, yellow bile (or choler), and black bile (or melancholy).

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All yellow-hued plants, if they were eatable, were thought to increase yellow bile.

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