biliaryadj.
/ˈbɪlɪəri/, U.S. /ˈbɪliˌɛri/, /ˈbɪljəri/ 1. Of or pertaining to the bile.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > gall or bile > [adjective]
bilious?1541
fellifluous1656
felleous1657
bilary1681
biliose1712
biliary1731
fellic acid1842
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments i. 7 Voracious Animals..have the Biliary Duct inserted into the Pylorus.
1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 337 Derangement in the biliary organs.
2. = bilious adj. 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [adjective] > bilious disorders
cholerica1398
melancholianta1400
gallish1551
melancholical1559
melancholish1562
cholerical1569
cholerous1583
atrabilar1597
melancholic1598
atrabilaric1620
melancholeric1650
atrabilious1651
bilious1651
atrabilary1676
atrabilarian1678
atrabilous1681
atrabilarious1684
atrabiliary1725
biliary1837
acholic1866
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. vi. 383 The biliary face seems clouded with new gloom.
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 97 Not sanguine and diffusive he, but biliary and intense.
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