单词 | acholia |
释义 | acholian. Medicine. Absent or reduced secretion of bile. In early use also: any of several diseases (supposedly) characterized by this, esp. cholera (cholera n. 4) and coeliac disease (now disused). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [noun] > bilious disorders black choleraa1398 black humoura1398 cholera1398 melancholya1398 choler adusta1400 black choler?a1425 melancholiousness1526 burnt choler1578 atrabile1594 combust choler1607 black bile1634 polycholia1799 bile1803 acholia1835 biliousness1856 1835 J. Elliotson in Medico-chirurg. Trans. 1 225 (note) Acholia (nulla bilis) is a good Greek word, and harmonizes with a characteristic fact. Asiatic acholia might be thought still more designative. 1860 C. Murchison tr. F. T. Frerichs Clin. Treat. Dis. Liver I. v. 193 (heading) Suppression of the function of the liver.—Acholia, and its consequences. 1863 W. Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) II. iii. 935 Occasionally death occurs under symptoms of acholia. 1903 W. B. Cheadle in Lancet 30 May 1497/1 An affection of the digestive tract..is that condition which I have ventured to term ‘acholia’... Acholia is specially characterised, as the name implies, by the absence of bile. 1963 E. D. Palmer Clin. Gastroenterol. (ed. 2) xvii. 580/2 After the common duct has been obstructed for some time, acholia, or failure of bile production, may result. 1988 European Jrnl. Epidemiol. 4 315/1 Clinical symptoms compatible with hepatitis: jaundice, acholia, hepatomegaly, etc. 2006 Human Pathol. 37 1346/2 The patient was admitted to the hospital with severe asthenia, jaundice, choluria, and acholia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1835 |
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