[1590–1600; ‹ L ictericus ‹ Gk ikterikós, equiv. to íkter(os) jaundice + -ikos-ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1590–1600. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Byzantine, attack, dummy, radius, volunteer-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'icteric' in a sentence
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On physical examination the skin and scleras were icteric.
Aliye BAŞTUĞ, Ayşe ERBAY, Hürrem BODUR, Esragül AKINCI, Mustafa Aydın ÇEVİK 2008, 'Hepatobiliary Ascariasis: A Case Report', Flora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisihttp://www.floradergisi.org/getFileContent.aspx?op=REDPDF&file_name=2008-13-2-104-106.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Patient was mildly anemic, moderately icteric and had mild splenomegaly.
Md. Abdul Aziz, Surozit Kumar Sarkar, Farzana Rahman, Showrab Biswas, Saqi Md. AbdulBaqi, Masuda Begum 2017, 'Atypical presentation of sickle cell disease', Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journalhttps://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BSMMUJ/article/view/31032. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Physical examination showed hepatosplenomegaly and icteric discoloration of sclera.
Ozturk Ates, Kemal Kosemehmetoglu, Gunes Guner, Yusuf Bayraktar 2015, 'Primary amyloidosis presenting intrahepatic cholestasis and fulminant hepatic failure',Italian Journal of Medicinehttp://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/593. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Among these patients 81.7% were male and 91.5% were icteric.
Lopes Antonio Alberto, Costa Everaldo, Costa Yara Aragão, Sacramento Edilson, OliveiraJunior Antonio Ralph Ribeiro de, Lopes Marcelo Barreto, Lopes Gildete Barreto 2004, 'Comparative study of the in-hospital case-fatality rate of leptospirosis between pediatricand adult patients of different age groups', Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulohttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652004000100004. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We studied 216 icteric male neonates who were re-admitted for phototherapy during the study period.
Moiz Bushra, Nasir Amna, Khan Sarosh, Kherani Salima, Qadir Maqbool 2012, 'Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia in infants with G6PD c.563C > TVariant',BMC Pediatricshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/12/126. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Her physical examination showed a tachycardia of 114 and icteric sclera but was otherwiseunremarkable.
Simpson E 2018, 'August 2018 critical care case of the month', Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Carehttp://www.swjpcc.com/critical-care/2018/8/2/august-2018-critical-care-case-of-the-month.html. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Plurisystemic involvement was observed both in the icteric and in the non-icteric patients.
H.M.C. Bezerra, L. Ataíde Jr., S.L. Hinrichsen, F.M. Travassos, P.T.C. Travassos,M.J.B. Silva, M.B. Silva 1993, 'Comprometimento do sistema nervoso na leptospirose I: Avaliação dos aspectos neurológicosInvolvement of the neurvous system in leptospirosis: I. Neurological aspects', Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatriahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1993000400006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Icteric hepatitis was observed in five patients.
T.V. Sorokman, O.-M.V. Popeliuk, I.V. Parfionova, N.O. Zymahorova 2016, 'Peculiarities of Liver Affection in Children with Infectious Mononucleosis', Aktualʹnaâ Infektologiâhttp://ai.zaslavsky.com.ua/article/view/77667. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
On examination, he was fully oriented but dehydrated, icteric, and febrile.
Oluwaseun Shogbesan, Andrew Rettew, Bilal Shaikh, Abdullateef Abdulkareem, AnthonyDonato 2017, 'Shigella sonnei Bacteremia Presenting with Profound Hepatic Dysfunction', Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicinehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7293281. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
She was well-nourished, deeply icteric, had generalized healing scratch marks and hepatomegaly.
Anthony Atimati, Paul Ikhurionan 2019, 'A suspected case of Progressive Familial Intra-hepatic Cholestasis in a Six-Year-OldNigerian Child', Annals of Health Researchhttp://www.annalsofhealthresearch.com/index.php/ahr/article/view/153. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)