cholaemia
English
Alternative forms
- cholemia
Etymology
New Latin, from Ancient Greek.
Noun
cholaemia (countable and uncountable, plural cholaemias)
- (medicine) A condition caused by the presence of excess bile in the blood, sometimes leading to somnolence and coma.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cholaemia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)