Definitions for jaundice

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jaundice jaun·dice

Spelling: [jawn-dis, jahn-]

IPA: /ˈdʒɔn dɪs, ˈdʒɑn-/

Jaundice is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 233 anagrams from letters in jaundice (acdeijnu).

Definitions for jaundice

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)

1. to distort or prejudice, as by envy or resentment:

Origin of jaundice

1275-1325; Middle English jaundis Old French jaunisse, equivalent to jaune yellow (Latin galbinus greenish-yellow) + -isse -ice

Examples for jaundice

This sort of jaundice is very common and is in no wise evidence107 of disease.

They also suffer from internal chills, liver, and very often jaundice.

He has an attack of the jaundice, and will, I think, start home to-morrow.

A decidedly yellow stain on the diaper occurs when there is jaundice.

Let it not be supposed that I make this statement in jaundice or malice.

Any one of them would give me the jaundice in a week, if it were hung in our drawing-room.'

Protective glasses shaded his eyes from the phototherapeutic light that treated him for jaundice.

jaundice and ascites, the consequences of great intemperance.

jaundice, dropsy, and great hardness in the region of the liver.

You were all licked there, or you died of the ague, or jaundice?