| bilious | Synonym: biliary. 2. Relating to or characteristic of biliousness. 3. Formerly, denoting a temperament characterised by a quick, irritable temper. Synonym: choleric. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| bilious headache | <disease> An often familial symptom complex of periodic attacks of vascular headache, usually temporal and unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia, attacks are preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, usually with resultant prodromal sensory (especially ocular) symptoms and commence with the vasodilation that follows. Origin: Gr. Hemikrania = an affection of half of the head (18 Nov 1997) |
| bilious pneumonia | Pneumonia following aspiration of gastric contents containing bile. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bilious remittent fever | Old term for relapsing fever, malarial "bilious" vomiting associated with marked increase of serum bilirubin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bilious remittent malaria | A form of falciparum malaria characterised by bilious vomiting, bilious diarrhoea, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bilious typhoid of Griesinger | An acute infection characterised by recurrent episodes of pyrexia alternating with asymptomatic intervals of apparent recovery. This condition has worldwide distribution and is caused by spirochetes of the genus borrelia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bilious vomit | Vomit containing large amounts of bile suggestive of bowel obstruction distal to the papilla of Vater. (05 Mar 2000) |
| biliousness | An imprecisely delineated congestive disturbance with anorexia, coated tongue, constipation, headache, dizziness, pasty complexion, and, rarely, slight jaundice; assumed to result from hepatic dysfunction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematuric bilious fever | Haematuria due to renal lesions caused by the malarial haematozoon, Plasmodium falciparum. (05 Mar 2000) |
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