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Webster 1913 Edition

Jaundice

Jaun′dice

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
[OE.
jaunis
, F.
jaunisse
, fr.
jaune
yellow, orig.
jalne
, fr. L.
galbinus
yellowish, fr.
galbus
yellow.]
(Med.)
A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the feces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood.
Blue jaundice
.
See
Cyanopathy
.

Jaun′dice

,
Verb.
T.
To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.
The envy of wealth
jaundiced
his soul.
Ld. Lytton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Jaundice

JAUNDICE

,
Noun.
j`andis. A disease which is characterized by a suffusion of bile over the coats of the eye and the whole surface of the body, by which they are tinged with a yellow color. Hence its name.

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