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A clinical manifestation of hyperbilirubinemia, consisting of deposition of bile pigments in the skin, resulting in a yellowish staining of the skin and mucous membranes.

Jaundice.

Jaundice.

ik'te-rus, n. the jaundice: a yellowish appearance in plants.--adjs. ICTER'IC, -AL, affected with jaundice; IC'TERINE, yellow, or marked with yellow, as a bird; ICTERIT'IOUS, yellow. [Gr. ikteros, jaundice.]

a species of weasel, whose eyes are yellow[?]. A disease, the principal symptom of which is yellowness of the skin and eyes, with white faeces and high-coloured urine. It admits of various causes; in fact, anything which can directly or indirectly obstruct the course of the bile, so that it is taken into the mass of blood and produces the yellowness of surface; - the bile being separated by the kidneys, causes yellowness of urine, and its being prevented from reaching the intestine occasions the pale-coloured faeces. The prognosis, in ordinary cases, is favourable; - when complicated with hepatic disease, unfavourable. The treatment is simple: - an emetic or purgative, given occasionally so as to elicit the return of the bile to its ordinary channels; light tonics; unirritating diet; cheerful company, etc.

[Latin, Greek] See Jaundice.

[Latin] Jaundice.

A yellow coloration of the skin, the mucous membranes, and the sclerotica due to the retention of bile pigment.