icterus
pronunciation
How to pronounce icterus in British English:
UK ['ɪktərəs]
How to pronounce icterus in American English:
US ['ɪktərəs]
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- 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
Word Origin
- icterus (n.)
- 1706, medical Latin, from Greek ikteros "jaundice," also the name of a yellowish bird the sight of which was supposed, by sympathetic magic, to cure jaundice. As a zoological genus, from 1713.
Example
- 1. Acute icterus type hepatitis is easy to administer what .
- 2. The medicine was very effective in curing icterus .
- 3. How many is newborn baby hemolysis icterus morbidity ?
- 4. Is the scheduled time icterus hepatitis is cured long ?
- 5. Acute icterus hepatitis will be contagious what .