BILIOUSNESS.
\bˈɪlɪəsnəs], \bˈɪlɪəsnəs], \b_ˈɪ_l_ɪ__ə_s_n_ə_s]\
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A popular and now nearly obsolete term for a digestive derangement, characterized by constipation, intellectual sluggishness, a feeling of general discomfort, offensiveness of the breath, and a furred state of the tongue, with or without headache, vomiting of bile, and abdominal pain; popularly and erroneously attributed to a defective secretion or outflow of bile.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
