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–noun

1.	Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.

2.	grasserie.

3.	a state of feeling in which views are prejudiced or judgment is distorted, as by envy or resentment.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to distort or prejudice, as by envy or resentment: His social position jaundiced his view of things.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME jaundis < OF jaunisse, equiv. to jaune yellow (< L galbinus greenish-yellow) + -isse -ice

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n.

Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes caused by deposition of bile salts in these tissues. It occurs as a symptom of various diseases, such as hepatitis, that affect the processing of bile. Also called icterus.
A state or feeling of negativity or bitterness arising especially from envy or world-weariness.

tr.v. jaun·diced, jaun·dic·ing, jaun·dic·es

To affect with the discoloration of jaundice.
To affect with the negativity or bitterness of jaundice. See Synonyms at bias.

[Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Old French jaunice, yellowness, jaundice, from jaune, jalne, yellow, from Latin galbinus, yellowish.]

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jaundice

c.1303, from O.Fr. jaunisse "yellowness" (12c.), from jaune "yellow," from L. galbinus "greenish yellow," probably from PIE *ghel- "yellow, green" (see Chloe). With intrusive -d- (cf. gender, astound, thunder). Meaning "feeling in which views are colored or distorted" first recorded 1629, from yellow's association with bitterness and envy (see yellow).

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jaundice
noun
1.	yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia
2.	a rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness]
verb
1.	distort adversely; "Jealousy had jaundiced his judgment"
2.	affect with, or as if with, jaundice

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jaundice [ˈdʒoːndis] noun

a diseased state of the body in which the skin and whites of the eyes become yellow

Arabic:	يَرَقان، صَفار
Chinese (Simplified):	黄疸
Chinese (Traditional):	黃疸
Czech:	žloutenka
Danish:	gulsot
Dutch:	geelzucht
Estonian:	kollatõbi
Finnish:	keltatauti
French:	jaunisse
German:	die Gelbsucht
Greek:	ίκτερος
Hungarian:	sárgaság
Icelandic:	gula
Indonesian:	penyakit kuning
Italian:	ittero, itterizia

Japanese:	黄胆
Korean:	황달
Latvian:	dzeltenā kaite
Lithuanian:	geltligė
Norwegian:	gulsott
Polish:	żółtaczka
Portuguese (Brazil):	icterícia
Portuguese (Portugal):	icterícia
Romanian:	hepatită
Russian:	желтуха
Slovak:	žltačka
Slovenian:	zlatenica
Spanish:	ictericia
Swedish:	gulsot
Turkish:	sarılık (hastalığı)

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Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, or mucous membranes caused by the deposition of bile salts in these tissues, occurring as a sign of disorders that interfere with normal metabolism or transport of bile. Liver diseases such as hepatitis commonly cause jaundice.

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jaundice [(jawn-dis)]

A condition in which the skin, the whites of the eye, and other tissues take on a yellowish color because of an excess of bile coloring in the blood.

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jaundice jaun·dice (jôn'dĭs, jän'-)
n.
Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes caused by deposition of bile salts in these tissues, occurring as a symptom of various diseases, such as hepatitis, that affect the processing of bile. Also called icterus.

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Main Entry: jaun·dice
Pronunciation: 'jon-d&s, 'jän-
Function: noun
1 : a yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and certainbody fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments that follows interference with normal production and discharge of bile (as in certain liver diseases) or excessive breakdown of red blood cells (asafter internal hemorrhage or in various hemolytic states) called also icterus
2 : any disease or abnormal condition (as hepatitis A or leptospirosis) that is characterizedby jaundice called also icterus

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Jaundice

Blue\, a. [Compar. Bluer; superl. Bluest.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, Sw. bl?, D. blauw, OHG. bl?o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. bl[=a]o.]

1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." --Milton.

2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]

5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking. [Colloq.]

The ladies were very blue and well informed. --Thackeray.

Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite.

Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black.

Blue blood. See under Blood.

Blue buck (Zo["o]l.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygm[ae]us); also applied to a larger species ([AE]goceras leucoph[ae]us); the blaubok.

Blue cod (Zo["o]l.), the buffalo cod.

Blue crab (Zo["o]l.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus).

Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant (Trichostema dichotomum), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroyal.

Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --Thackeray.

Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum.

Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree (Eucalyptus globulus), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus.

Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.

Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform.

Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice.

Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.]

Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations.

Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes.

Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. --McElrath.

Blue mold, or mould, the blue fungus (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.

Blue Monday, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).

Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment.

Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags.

Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass.

Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; -- hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These [scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the college." --Farrar. (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon Army.

Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.

Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite.

Blue thrush (Zo["o]l.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas).

Blue verditer. See Verditer.

Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc.

Blue water, the open ocean.

To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.

True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

For his religion . . . 'T was Presbyterian, true blue. --Hudibras.

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Jaundice

Jaun"dice\ (?; 277), n. [OE. jaunis, F. jaunisse, fr. jaune yellow, orig. jalne, fr. L. galbinus yellowish, fr. galbus yellow.] (Med.) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the f[ae]ces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood.

Blue jaundice. See Cyanopathy.

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