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单词 black bile
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black bile

noun [mass noun]
(In medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, believed to be associated with a melancholy temperament. Also called melancholy.Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water....
  • He subscribes, at least in part, to the ancient belief that diseases are caused by an imbalance in the body's four humors: yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm.
  • So if you've got an excess of black bile, you're melancholy; if there's a lot of blood running through you, you're sanguine.

Origin

Late 18th century: translation of Greek melankholia (see melancholy). Compare with atrabilious.

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