Search for crossword answers and clues
Aids in the digestion of fats
Answer for the clue "Aids in the digestion of fats ", 4 letters:
bile
Alternative clues for the word bile
Word definitions for bile in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bile is a greenish-yellow alkaline fluid secreted from the liver of most vertebrates. Bile may also refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats [syn: gall ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bile \Bile\, n. [L. bilis: cf. F. bile.] (Physiol.) 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 ...
Usage examples of bile.
They are probably allied to neurine, an alkaloid obtained from the brain and also from the bile.
At this my bile overpowered me, and I was going to seize him anti throw him out of the window, when Don Antonio Grimaldi came in.
Lydia had shot him that night in Isel Woods had Harris tasting bile in his throat.
Thay aint over stockt with branes, but thay hav brass enuff to make suffishunt kittles to bile all the sope that will be required by the ensooin sixteen ginerashuns.
Swamp still appeared benign to those whose daily job was to landfill and dump and level out the increasing bile and fodder.
Miss Mahan felt her throat beginning to burn from the bile rising in it.
On the monitor a chart appeared, giving the results from the analysis: bile pigments, stercobilin, urobilin, indole, nitrates, skatole, mercaptans, hydrogen sulfide.
Sugars, acetone bodies, creatine, nitrogenous compounds, haemoglobin, myoglobin, amino acids and metabolites, uric acid, urea, urobilinogen and coproporphyrins, bile pigments, minerals, fats, and of course a great variety of psychotropic drugs: certainly all of the ones proscribed by the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
He retched at this memory, the bile rising suddenly in his throat, and turned quickly away in need of a discreet placea plant pot, maybe, or an open windowwhere he might vomit.
Gagging, Trull stumbled across, his moccasins plunging down into warm pockets, lifting clear sheathed in blood and bile.
Fury sent bile to his tongue as he remembered the subtle threat of violation that had threaded through his system as the demon siphoned his wrist.
Clutching his chest, feeling that his heart must crack from the pain, Sond swallowed the bile rising in his throat.
She spat, trying to clear her mouth of the taste of spoiled milk and bile.
When the system is surcharged with bile, from a congested condition of the liver, we use these agents in order to obtain necessary relief.
She swal 1owed hard at the memory, and shuddered as the bile rose in her throat.