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Definition of Icterus
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Terms within: Hyperbilirubinemia
Specialized synonyms: Icterus Neonatorum, Jaundice Of The Newborn, Physiological Jaundice Of The Newborn, Kernicterus
Derivative terms: Icteric, Jaundice
2. Noun. Type genus of the Icteridae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Icteridae, Icteridae
Member holonyms: Icterus Galbula, Northern Oriole, Icterus Spurius, Orchard Oriole
Definition of Icterus
1. n. The jaundice.
Definition of Icterus
1. Noun. (medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Icterus
1. a diseased condition of the liver [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Icterus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Icterus
Literary usage of Icterus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"Two special affections may here receive consideration, the icterus of the ...
The mild or physiological icterus of the new-born is a common disease in ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"MAUE: icterus INDEX OF BLOOD SERUM dividing the reading of the standard by the
... The calculation is as follows: Tr-D = icterus index RRs = Reading of ..."
3. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt (1907)
"icterus. Several varieties of icterus are met with in the newly born. 1. ...
The most frequent of all varieties is the so-called idiopathic icterus, ..."
4. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"It requires time ; and castor oil, occasionally. icterus MELAS ... icterus SATURNI'MUS,
Lead jaundice. The earthy-yellow hue in saturnine cachexy. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"The Bed Blood-corpuscle in icterus ... 43, 1896, S. 976) has made a study of this
subject based upon twelve cases of icterus neonatorum observed in the ..."
6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"We should separate the icterus sulcirostris, Spii, LXIV, the lower jaw of whose
... (4) Oriolus icterus, Enl. 532;—Oriolus minor and Tanagra bonariensis, ..."
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