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Biliousness

noun

Gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder.

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger. Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper.

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Etymology of 'Biliousness'

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"Biliousness" Quotes from Famous Books

... diving-bell atmosphere, was ordered to the West Indies, and papa said it was what I needed, and I went, too,—and oh, how sea-sick! Were you ever? You forget all about who you are, and have a vague notion of being Universal Disease. I have heard of a kind of myopy that is biliousness, and when I reached the islands my sight was as clear as my skin; all that tropical luxuriance snatched me to itself at once, recognized me for kith and kin; and mamma died, and I lived. We had accidents between wind and water, enough to have made me considerate for ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 27, January, 1860 • Various

... is the flint arrow head which is put into the same decoction, in order that in the same mysterious manner its sharp cutting qualities may be communicated to the liquid and enable it to cut the worms into pieces. In like manner, biliousness is called by the Cherokees dal[^a][']n[)i] or "yellow," because the most apparent symptom of the disease is the vomiting by the patient of the yellow bile, and hence the doctor selects for the decoction four different herbs, ...

— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney

... has several varieties, warm, cold, moist and dry, and seems nearly equivalent to our somewhat overworked term of "biliousness." Gilbert's favorite compounds for the relief of this condition are the Trifera sarracenica, the Electuarium psilliticum and ...

— Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century • Henry Ebenezer Handerson

Words linked to "Biliousness" : surliness, unhealthiness, querulousness, snappishness, ill health, health problem, bilious, ill nature