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yellow bile
noun
One of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology, that was believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irascibility, anger, and bad temper when present in excess.
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These were black bile, yellow bile, choler and phlegm.
Jaundice was obviously an overflow of yellow bile.
Physicians believed the body had four "humors": blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm.
They appear in Unani practice as dam (blood), balgham (phlegm), safra (yellow bile), and sauda (black bile).
An oversupply of yellow bile (secreted by the liver) would result in anger, irritability, and a "jaundiced" view of life.
The word "cholera" derives from choler — the Greek word for yellow bile — perhaps because of the pale appearance of the resulting evacuations.
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Instead, it was common to suppose that diseases reflected an imbalance of the four humors (blood, phlegm, and yellow and black bile), an imbalance ascribed to a large range of behaviors and environmental factors.
In the other pigs in this group, which survived for 30 or 60 days, in the atrophic liver lobes, large aggregates of microspheres were frequently seen, associated with large areas of coagulative necrosis (often with yellow discoloration by bile imbibition) and surrounded by multinucleated giant cells, pigmented macrophages, and a fibrous capsule (Fig. 4e).
Examples of such proteins include the red heme proteins of the blood, the purple pigments of the retina of the eye, green and yellow proteins that contain bile pigments, blue copper-containing proteins, and dark brown proteins called melanins.
Sifting through all the fascinating discussions about stool colors on the Internet also led me to multiple statements that Brilliant Blue mixes with bilirubin, which is a yellow chemical component of bile in the digestive system that is responsible for turning urine yellow and poop brown.
As the body isn't developed completely, it finds it difficult to flush out the bilirubin (a yellow pigment found in bile) produced by the liver, giving the baby a yellow color.
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