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Icterus

noun
1.
Yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia.  Synonym: jaundice.
2.
Type genus of the Icteridae.  Synonym: genus Icterus.



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"Icterus" Quotes from Famous Books



... to bury his chagrin beneath the flowers of his German philosophy; but a week later he grew so yellow that Mme. Cibot exerted her ingenuity to call in the parish doctor. The leech had fears of icterus, and left Mme. Cibot frightened half out of her wits by the Latin word for an ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac


Words linked to "Icterus" :   symptom, genus Icterus, family Icteridae, jaundice of the newborn, bird genus, icteric, hyperbilirubinemia, northern oriole, orchard oriole, physiological jaundice of the newborn, Icterus spurius, Icteridae


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