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单词 icteric
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ictericadj.n.

Brit. /ɪkˈtɛrɪk/, U.S. /ɪkˈtɛrɪk/
Etymology: < Latin ictericus, < Greek ἰκτερικός jaundiced, < ἴκτερος (see icterus n.). Compare French icterique (13th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
A. adj.
1.
a. Belonging to, of the nature of, or affected with jaundice; jaundiced. (Sometimes referring to the yellow tint of the skin in that disease, or to the jaundiced eyes which see all things yellow.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [adjective] > jaundice
icteritious1609
icterica1614
jaundiced1640
icterical1649
cholaemic1876
icterogenetic1897
icterogenic1903
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 14 He died..anno 1575 in an icterik fevar.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 96 That sort of Cœliack passion, which I think may be called an Icterick Loosness.
1799 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 4) I. 29 An infant..whose finger nails were..of as deep a yellow as in any icteric adults.
1804 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 141 Icteric vision.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 334 (note) The icteric tint of the skin seems to be merely the result of an effusion of blood.
b. Used for the cure of jaundice.
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1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 14 Icteric Ale..cureth..Icteric Persons.
2. icteric oriole n. a North American bird ( Icterus vulgaris), having black and yellow plumage, with white spots on the wings; also called troopial.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Icterus (oriole) > icterus icterus (troupial)
icteric oriole1803
troopial1825
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 287 The Icteric Oriole..in size is somewhat less than a Blackbird.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. ix. 281 The icteric Oriole is kept by the Americans in their houses for the sake of clearing them of insects.
B. n.
1. A person affected with jaundice.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice > person
icteric1634
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 2 They resemble the Icterickes, who hauing the Iaundesse in their Eyes, see nothing which seemeth not vnto them to carry the same colour.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician ix. 314 When an Icterick was let bloud, it appeared all yellow.
2. A medicine for the cure of jaundice.
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1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. vi. 83 Administer to each of them Lenitives..Laxatives, Cephalalgicks, Ictericks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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