yellow bile
one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing anger; choler.
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How to use yellow bile in a sentence
According to this celebrated theory there are four humors in the body—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) | Henry Smith WilliamsMy sound, sensitive liver rests gently with its thin yellow bile in sweet content.
The Story of Mary MacLane | Mary MacLaneAnother is that which they make about the secretion of yellow bile.
On the Natural Faculties | GalenThese four "humours" were blood, phlegm, yellow bile (or choler), and black bile (or melancholy).
Stories That Words Tell Us | Elizabeth O'NeillAll yellow-hued plants, if they were eatable, were thought to increase yellow bile.
Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics | Richard Folkard
British Dictionary definitions for yellow bile
archaic one of the four bodily humours, choler
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