noun
choler
Yellow bile regarded as a bodily humor in historical medicine.
The medieval physician attributes the patient's temperament to an excess of choler.
Etymology
The Greek word names bile. Historical medicine treated yellow bile as one of the bodily humors, so this sense preserves a literal substance within that older theory.
More examples
- The diagram lists choler among the four bodily humors.
- Historical medicine associated choler with heat and dryness.
- The manuscript describes yellow bile as choler.
Forms
choler
Similar words
- bile
- Bile names a bodily fluid; choler in this use places yellow bile within historical humoral theory.