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| bile | |
| 1. Substantiv: | |
| 2. [1] meist Singular: Flüssigkeit, welche von der Leber produziert und in der Gallenblase gespeichert wird; Galle | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
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| bile | |
| 1. subst. (biochemistry) 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. |  |
| 2. subst. bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility. | |
| 3. subst. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology. | |
| 4. subst. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling). | |
