Old term used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries pertaining to bad digestion, stomach pains, constipation, and excessive flatulence.
A symptom-picture resulting from a short-term disordered liver, with constipation, frontal headache, spots in front of the eyes, poor appetite, and nausea or vomiting. The usual causes are heavy alcohol consumption, poor ventilation when working with solvents, heavy binging with fatty foods, or moderate consumption of rancid fats. The term is genially archaic in medicine; people who are bilious are seldom genial, however.
Popular term used to describe conditions marked by general malaise, giddiness, vomiting, headache, indigestion, constipation, and so forth.
Disorder of bile production (to excess).
A feeling of indigestion and nausea (informal).
An obsolete term for symptoms ascribed to liver disorders.
Regurgitation of bile from the stomach to the mouth characterizes a condition known as bile reflux. Additionally, the term “biliousness” is commonly employed outside of medical contexts to describe feelings of nausea and the act of vomiting.