Jaundice

//ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪs//

"Jaundice" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Newborns are prone to jaundice.

Jaundice is a temporary yellowing of the newborn baby's skin and eyes because of excess bilirubin, a yellow pigment of red blood cells.

I have had jaundice for a while.

I have been suffering from jaundice for some time.

I have been experiencing jaundice for a period.

His illness is jaundice.

She is suffering from jaundice.

The disease he has is jaundice.

Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies / By being peeuiſh?

But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!

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In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).

Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?

No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]

The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.

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