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A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

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Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

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Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

John Luke Grasso, his name was so much bile on my tongue I gagged to keep it down.

The Gall-bladder may be ruptured by external violence, and if bile escapes from the rent in considerable quantities peritonitis will be set up, whether the bile contains septic germs or not.

According to this celebrated theory, the body contains four humours - blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile, a right proportion and mixture of which constitute health; improper proportions or irregular distribution, disease.

Inasmuch as the stone is blocking the duct, the bile is unable to flow into the intestine; so, being absorbed by the blood-vessels, it gives rise to jaundice.

They do this in part by stimulating the liver to produce bile.

The vomited material may contain blood or bile as well as mucus or watery fluid.

The vomitus will be greenish (bilious) because it contains bile from the gallbladder.

Other diets that have been tried with varying success include dietary supplementation with plasmalogen precursors to increase plasmalogen levels and with cholic acid to normalize bile acids.

Meconium ileus is a disorder that occurs in newborns in which the meconium, the neonate's first fecal excretion after birth, is abnormally thick and stringy, rather than the collection of mucus and bile that is normally passed.

The vomited material may be green from bile or fecal in character.

A bilirubin test is a diagnostic blood test performed to measure levels of bile pigment in an individual's blood serum and to help evaluate liver function.

Bilirubin is a yellow-orange bile pigment produced during the breakdown of hemoglobin, the iron-bearing and oxygen-carrying protein in red blood cells.

As a waste product, bilirubin is filtered out of blood (cleared) by the liver and excreted in bile, eliminated normally in stool produced by the large intestine.

Liquid vitamins send the signal and respond by sending bile juice, which assists by converting the vitamins into enzymes.

Just about any combination of endive or chicory juice elevates the release of bile.

Bile is a fat that is used for digesting fiber found in fruits and vegetables.

Additionally, it helps fight cancer because it attacks certain types of bile acid and reduces their toxicity.

Soluble fiber binds to bile acids in the intestines, which leads to their elimination.

This is because fats are broken down by bile produced in the gall bladder.

Salicylate of soda may occasionally be of use in cases of gallstone, owing to its action on the bile.

When given internally it increases the actual amount as well as the rate of flow of the bile.

In his earlier years he devoted himself to chemistry, both theoretical and applied, publishing papers on the preparation of gold and platinum, numerical relations between the atomic weights of analogous elements, the formation of aventurine glass, the manufacture of illuminating gas from wood, the preservation of oil-paintings, &c. The reaction known by his name for the detection of bile acids was published in 1844.

Thus Karl Christoph Vogt repeated the saying of the French physician Cabanis, " The brain is determined to thought as the stomach is to digestion, or the liver to the secretion of bile," in the form, " Thought stands in the same relation to the brain as the bile to the liver or the urine to the kidneys."

When we come to consider more in detail the results of these actions we find that the various secretions of the body, such as the sweat, gastric juice, bile, milk, urine, &c., may be increased or diminished; that the heart may have its muscular or nervous apparatus stimulated or depressed; that the nerve-centres in the brain, medulla and spinal cord may be rendered more sensitive or the reverse; and that the general metabolism of the body may be altered in various ways.

Binding to bile acids In vitro binding of bile acids by certain components of dietary fiber has been well documented.

Boldine, the major alkaloid, is responsible for the plant's bile stimulating effect, which has been reported to improve appetite.

And if you give medicine which draws bile, you will have him vomit bile.

You may need to have a catheter that drains bile into a bag outside your body.

My liver is not producing enough bile to digest these foods properly.

Would it not be absurd for any one to choose voluntarily those articles which contain more bile, rather than those containing less?

No; the black bile is such a humor.

There is a feedback loop which tells the body how much bile to release into the system.

Has he had his hair permed or is the claim just more bile?

The stent clears a passage through the bile duct to allow the bile duct to allow the bile to drain away.

Moon bears - Jean has been campaigning against the horrific practice of bear bile farming for some time now.

A serum bile acid test is not widely available.

Images include bile canaliculus, glycogen alpha particles, Kupffer cell, liver, rER & mitochondria, sER, and sinusoids.

Guggul helps rid your body of harmful cholesterol by converting it into bile Until recently the mechanism by which guggul lowers cholesterol was unclear.

This is then conjugated with glucuronide and excreted both in urine and bile as the glucuronide.

This is joined by the cystic duct from the gall bladder, which then forms the common bile duct.

The stent clears a passage through the bile duct to allow the bile to drain away.

The common bile duct then empties into a part of the small intestine called the duodenum.

Bile also emulsifies fats, giving a larger surface area for the action of lipase.

In addition, the presence of soluble fiber may influence how much bile acid binds to the insoluble fiber that is present.

The examination may be used to locate, and in some cases remove, gallstones stuck in the bile duct.

Feel the humiliation of sleeping in urine and bile, the pain of rats gnawing at their feet, their legs, their genitals.

It should be avoided by people with chronic heartburn, severe liver damage, inflammation of the gallbladder, or obstruction of bile ducts.

There is either an excess release or incomplete removal of the bile pigment derived from hemoglobin in red blood cells.

Maybe we should believe David Murray when he says he wants rid of the bile.

Cholestyramine can help the small proportion of IBS sufferers who have diarrhea secondary to impaired handling of bile salts within the gut.