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JAUNDICE

Volume 11 · 59 words · 1815 Edition

(derived from the French jaunisse, "yellowness," of jaune, "yellow"); a disease consisting in a suffusion of the bile, and a rejection thereof to the surface of the body, whereby the whole exterior habit is discoloured. Dr Maculog is of opinion, that the bile returns into the circulation in this disorder by the course of the lymphatics. See MEDICINE Index.