yellow bile

• Una de los cuatro humores en la medicina antigua y medieval, considerada un fluido corporal asociado con la ira y el temperamento colérico. En la ciencia médica moderna, este concepto está obsoleto.

One of the four humors in ancient and medieval medicine, believed to be a bodily fluid associated with anger and choleric temperament. The concept is now obsolete in modern medical science.

1. Historical bodily humorC2formal

   One of the four humors in ancient and medieval medicine, believed to be a yellow or greenish fluid produced by the liver, associated with a choleric temperament.

   bilis amarilla

   • According to Hippocrates, an excess of yellow bile caused a person to be irritable and angry.
   • Medieval doctors believed that yellow bile was responsible for fevers and digestive issues.
   • The theory of the four humors included blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.