BILE
\bˈa͡ɪl], \bˈaɪl], \b_ˈaɪ_l]\
Definitions of BILE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
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A boil.
By Oddity Software
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A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
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A boil.
By Noah Webster.
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An emulsifying agent produced in the LIVER and secreted into the DUODENUM. Its composition includes BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHOLESTEROL; and ELECTROLYTES. It aids DIGESTION of fats in the duodenum.
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A yellow, greenish, viscid, bitter, nauseous fluid, secreted by the liver. It is distinguished into hepatic and cystic; according as it flows immediately into the duodenum from the liver or from the gall-bladder. It contains, according to Muratori, water; a peculiar fatty matter; colouring matter (Cholepyr'rhin or Biliphoe'in, Matiere Jaune de la Bile; cholesterin, combined with soda; picromel or bilin; extract of flesh, mucus; soda, phosphate of soda; phosphate of lime, and chloride of sodium. The use of the bile is to remove from the body superfluous hydro-carbon; and it is probably inservient to useful purposes in digestion.
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Furunculus-Black, Atrabilis-b. de Boeuf, see Bile-b. Repandue, Icterus.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Gall; the secretion of the liver; a liquid varying from dark yellowish-green to reddish brown in color; semitransparent except when very dark; somewhat viscid as it comes directly from the liver, still more viscid after passing into the gallbladder; of a disagreeable, bitter taste; almost inodorous when perfectly fresh; of a sp. gr. ranging from 1.01-1.04; usually alkaline in reaction. Its specific constituents are: bile salts, bile pigments, and small quantities of lecithin phosphited, cholesterin, soaps, and inorganic salts,
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
