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jaundice

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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jaun·dice /ˈdʒɔːndɪs $ ˈdʒɒːn-, ˈdʒɑːn-/ noun [uncountable]  MIa medical condition in which your skin and the white part of your eyes become yellow 黄疸()
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jaundiceYou probably realised she's a severe case of portal cirrhosis, with ascites and jaundice.Symptoms include fatigue, fever, nausea, jaundice and dark urine, although some people never manifest symptoms.Disorders that follow this type of course are acute hemolytic anemia, chronic hemolytic anemia, and neonatal jaundice.Elevated alkaline phosphatase is associated with liver disease and with both obstructive jaundice and intrahepatic jaundice.Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically.Patients presenting with obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct stricture may be managed by either surgery or stenting.Neonatal physiologic jaundice due to an enzyme deficiency is hepatic in origin.These included five reported deaths with jaundice in Northern Ireland.
Origin jaundice (1300-1400) Old French jaunice, from jaune yellow
jaun·dice nounChineseSyllable
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jaundice
jaundice /ˈdʒɔːndəs, ˈdʒɔːndɪs $ ˈdʒɒːn-, ˈdʒɑːn-/ noun [uncountable]
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Old French
 Origin: jaunice, from jaune 'yellow'
a medical condition in which your skin and the white part of your eyes become yellow


jaun·diceBrE /ˈdʒɔːndɪs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdʒɔːndɪs/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a medical condition in which the skin and the white parts of the eyes become yellow 黄疸;黄疸病