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Icterus

Icterus \Ic"te*rus\, n. [NL. See Icteric, a.] (Med.) The jaundice.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
icterus

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.

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icterus

n. (lb en medicine) An excess of (l en bile pigment bile pigments) in the (l en blood); (l en jaundice).

WordNet
icterus
  1. n. 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 [syn: jaundice]

  2. type genus of the Icteridae [syn: genus Icterus]

Wikipedia
Icterus

Icterus may refer to:

  • Jaundice
  • A genus of New World orioles

Usage examples of "icterus".

Many deaths have happened in a neighboring large city from that well-known complaint, Icterus Invidiosorum, after returning from a visit to the Music Hall.

Besides, she has other chapters on nervous affections, on icterus, on fevers, on intestinal worms, on infections due to swamp exhalations, on dysentery, and a number of forms of pulmonary diseases.

The principal symptom is hematogenous icterus with cyanosis,--the urine contains blood and blood-coloring matter.

The existence of accidental nigrities rests on well-established facts which are distinctly different from the pigmentation of purpura, icterus, or that produced by metallic salts.

The principal symptom is hematogenous icterus with cyanosis,--the urine contains blood and blood-coloring matter.