What does the word bile mean?
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A yellow, greenish, viscid, bitter, nauseous fluid, secreted by the liver. It is distinguished into hepatic and cystic; according as it flows immediately into the duodenum from the liver or from the gall-bladder. It contains, according to Muratori, water; a peculiar fatty matter; colouring matter( Cholepyr'rhin or Biliphoe'in, Matiere Jaune de la Bile; cholesterin, combined with soda; picromel or bilin; extract of flesh, mucus; soda, phosphate of soda; phosphate of lime, and chloride of sodium. The use of the bile is to remove from the body superfluous hydro-carbon; and it is probably inservient to useful purposes in digestion.
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Furunculus-Black, Atrabilis-b. de Boeuf, see Bile-b. Repandue, Icterus.
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