Bile

//baɪl//

"Bile" in a Sentence (13 examples)

After the botched gallbladder surgery, the patient was filled with bile, both figuratively and literally.

The gallbladder produces bile.

It's unusual, but there are critters that bleed different colors of the rainbow besides red. The New Guinea lizards' blood — along with their tongues, muscles and bones — appear green because of incredibly large doses of a green bile pigment.

They threw bile in my food.

Where did you get so much bile?

Where does all your bile come from?

Efforts to crack down on bear bile farming continue, more than 20 years after the product was officially banned.

Josh had surgery to attach the liver to the small intestine so the bile could drain.

According to Galen, the four elements of Aristotelian science—fire, water, air, and earth—comprised the four major humors of the human body: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

The number of cancers of the gallbladder and bile ducts in Asia were comparable to those in the West, according to Chen. Those sites are closer in the body to the pancreas, where insulin is made.

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I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.

He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.

We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

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