Sentence examples for jaundice from inspiring English sources

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"Jaundice" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
You can use it to describe the yellowing of skin and eyes that is caused by a buildup of bilirubin in the bloodstream. For example, "The newborn baby was diagnosed with jaundice and was put under the blue lights to treat it."

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jaundice

noun

A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the feces, constipation, queasiness, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood. Other causes include increased hemolysis and any liver disease. The discoloration is caused by accumulation of bilirubin in the body; bilirubin is normally excreted in bile to give feces their normal yellow-brown coloration.

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The viruses affect the liver so some people also show signs of jaundice, a yellowing of the eyes or skin.

Martin Luther King never said "I have a nightmare" and likewise Charles' desire for justice was always impressively built on hope not jaundice.

Similarly, the company's researchers found that such effects can boost the concentration of children in schools.On the medical front, Philips has incorporated tiny blue LEDs into a blanket which can be wrapped around babies suffering from jaundice (see picture).

Round the world he went, to Nigeria, Australia, the Arctic, India, taking thousands of blood samples, hoping something would show up.What showed up one day in 1964, quite unexpectedly, as he was studying yellow jaundice, was a mysterious protein in the blood of an Australian aborigine.

Workers next door at the Foreign Ministry contracted jaundice after a monkey drowned in the water-tank.Since then various efforts have been made to remove the monkeys.

Bile-duct atresia is a condition that is always accompanied by severe jaundice and that limits the person's capacity to digest fatty foods.

The veterinarian examines the visible mucous membranes of the eye, nose, and mouth to determine if jaundice, hemorrhages, or anemia are present.

Although most women are able to control the condition through a careful regimen of diet and exercise, with close monitoring of weight gain and blood sugar levels, and give birth to healthy babies, untreated gestational diabetes can result in jaundice, hypoglycemia, mineral deficiencies, or respiratory distress in the infant.

Incompatibility of blood types of the mother and fetus, leading to severe jaundice at birth, may cause brain damage and cerebral palsy.

Kernicterus may occur because of Rh blood-group incompatibility between mother and child, as in erythroblastosis fetalis, where the mother's immune system destroys fetal blood cells, resulting in severe anemia and jaundice in the newborn.

Symptoms include anemia, with the presence of many immature red blood cells (erythroblasts) in the circulation; jaundice, resulting from a buildup of bilirubin (a breakdown product of hemoglobin from red blood cells); and an enlarged liver and spleen.

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