jaundice

(jawn'dis) [Fr jaune, yellow.] Icterus, a yellowish staining of the integuments and deeper ti ues and the excretions with bile pigments. acathec'tic j., a form due to a lo by the liver cells of the faculty of preventing the pa age into the blood and lymph of the bile secreted by them acute infec'tious j., Weil's* disease, acholu'ric j., urobilin j. black j., (1) Winckel's* disease; (2) icterus melas. febrile j., Weil's* disease, hematog'enous toxemic hemohepatog'enous toxemic hepatog'enous resulting from disease of the liver, as distinguished from that supposedly due to blood changes, infec'tious Weil's disease, inog'enous icterus neon a to rum, theoretically due to bile pigment, resulting from the transformation of the hemoglobin in the ti ues, erjrthematous skin, and areas of minute capillary blood extravasation, j. of the newborn, icterus neon a to rum, malig'nant j., icter-