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Biliousness

noun

Gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder.

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger. Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper.

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... and Medenham fished in the basket for the St. Galmier, since Lady St. Maur cultivated gout with her biliousness. ...

— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy

... over-anxiety in all matters relating to sickness—was very particular in his inquiries as to the invalid's condition, and was with difficulty reassured by the professor's assertion that there was certainly nothing worse the matter with him than, possibly, a slight attack of biliousness. The remaining five men, therefore, went away in the boats after breakfast, Sir Reginald taking the precaution to carry his telephone along with him, in order that Lady Olivia might have the means of communicating with him in the event of further and more serious symptoms manifesting ...

— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood

... slightly laxative, and therefore tends to counteract the effects of rich and stimulating meats. The acid of the apples also neutralizes the oily nature of the fat, and prevents biliousness. ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... liver? Our unscientific medical ancestors—at a loss to account for the state of affairs in any other way—answered in the affirmative, and, believing it was produced by a collection of bile in the liver, called the condition "biliousness." How absurd modern science has shown this assumption to be! We now know that the liver is rarely diseased, and that it furnishes its secretion, called bile, for the purpose of aiding digestion rather than ...

— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris

... is the flint arrow head which is put into the same decoction, in order that in the same mysterious manner its sharp cutting qualities may be communicated to the liquid and enable it to cut the worms into pieces. In like manner, biliousness is called by the Cherokees dal[^a][']n[)i] or "yellow," because the most apparent symptom of the disease is the vomiting by the patient of the yellow bile, and hence the doctor selects for the decoction four different herbs, ...

— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney