medical jaundice

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• Jaundice — Yellowing redirects here. For the plant disease, see lethal yellowing. For paper degradation, see foxing. Icterus and icteric redirect here. For the physiological event, see Ictal. For the songbird Icteria, see Yellow breasted Chat. Jaundice… …   Wikipedia

• Jaundice — Yellowish staining of the skin and sclerae (the whites of the eyes) by abnormally blood high levels of the bile pigment bilirubin. The yellowing extends to other tissues and body fluids. Jaundice was once called the morbus regius (the regal… …   Medical dictionary

• Medical sign — A medical sign is an objective[1] indication of some medical fact or characteristic that may be detected by a physician during a physical examination of a patient.[2] Signs may have no meaning for, and can even go unnoticed by, the patient, but… …   Wikipedia

• jaundice — n. a yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, indicating excess bilirubin (a bile pigment) in the blood. Jaundice is classified into three types. Obstructive jaundice occurs when bile made in the liver fails to reach the intestine due to… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• jaundice — jaun|dice [ˈdʒo:ndıs US ˈdʒo:n , ˈdʒa:n ] n [U] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: jaunice, from jaune yellow ] a medical condition in which your skin and the white part of your eyes become yellow …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• jaundice — noun (U) a medical condition in which your skin and the white part of your eyes become yellow …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Icterus — Jaundice. At least one medical dictionary defines icterus as the presence of jaundice seen in the sclera of the eye. This is incorrect. Icterus is synonymous with jaundice. They are one and the same thing. Curiously, both icterus and jaundice… …   Medical dictionary

• digestive system disease — Introduction       any of the diseases that affect the human digestive tract. Such disorders may affect the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon), pancreas, liver, or biliary tract. A prevalent disorder of the digestive… …   Universalium

• syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

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• Leptospirosis — Classification and external resources Leptospirose magnified 200 times with dark field microscope ICD 10 A …   Wikipedia