acholuricadj.
/ˌeɪkɒˈljʊərɪk/, U.S. /ˌeɪkoʊˈlʊrɪk/ Medicine.
Of types of jaundice: characterized by acholuria.
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1902 Lancet 20 Dec. 1708/2 (title) Acholuric icterus. We are indebted entirely to French clinicians for the description of ictère acholurique—chronic jaundice of slight degree (subicterus) in which there is no bile in the urine.
1910 Lancet 22 Jan. 254/2 Four cases of congenital acholuric jaundice..in one family are recorded.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxiii. 617 The intrinsic diseases which may result in hæmolytic anæmia are paroxysmal hæmoglobinuria, acholuric jaundice, and sickle-cell anæmia.
1960 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 100 121/1 One patient had acholuric jaundice, secondary to congenital spherocytosis.
1988 Update 1 Mar. 1798/2 In this form it cannot be excreted in urine, which is why the term acholuric jaundice is given to those causes of unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia such as haemolysis.
2004 Medicine 32 3/2 Increased RBC [= red blood cell] destruction is accompanied by hyperbilirubinaemia, but not by the appearance of bilirubin in the urine (acholuric jaundice).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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