jaundice

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When hepatic cirrhosis does not accompany symptoms such as jaundice, ascites and encephalopathy, it is called compensated cirrhosis.

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  1. noun Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes caused by deposition of bile salts in these tissues. It occurs as a symptom of various diseases, such as hepatitis, that affect the processing of bile. Also called icterus.
  2. noun A state or feeling of negativity or bitterness arising especially from envy or world-weariness.
  3. transitive verb To affect with the discoloration of jaundice.
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  • Within a few weeks the king suffered a brief attack of jaundice, and Marie requested permission to visit him at his château of Choisy. —  Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman
  • On first examination, one might conclude by her colouration that she died of the blue jaundice, which is to say, a condition of the heart. —  AHMM,January-February2007
  • I was going up to see my little patient with jaundice, and he came staggering down. —  The Case of the Late Pig - Margery Allingham - Campion 08 - 1937
  • He has an attack of the jaundice, and will, I think, start home to-morrow. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Citizen-soldier, by John Beatty.
  • When hepatic cirrhosis does not accompany symptoms such as jaundice, ascites and encephalopathy, it is called compensated cirrhosis. —  JCN Newswire
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  1. Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Old French jaunice, yellowness, jaundice, from jaune, jalne, yellow, from Latin galbinus, yellowish.

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  1. Early modern English also jaundize, jaundies; English dial. jaunders, janders; from Middle English jaundys, jandis, jandise, also jawndres (with excrescent d and r), earlier jaunes, jawnes, jaunys, from Old French jaunisse, later jaulnisse, French jaunisse, jaundice, yellows, literally ‘yellowness,’ from Old French jaune, yellow: see jaune.
  2. from jaundice, n.
 

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