| Definitions | | bile |
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noun
- A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
- bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
- Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
Translations: *Czech: žlu� (1)
*Finnish: (t, fi, sappi) (1), (t, fi, sapekkuus) (2)
*French: bile (1, 2, 3)
*German: Galle (1)
*Greek: �ολή xo�.�li (1, 3), α�ιθ�μία a.p͡si.θi.�mi.a (2), οξ�θ�μία o�.k͡si.θi.�mi.a (2)
*Hebrew: �ר� mara
*Latvian: žults
*Polish: żóÅ�Ä� (1, 2)
*Portuguese: bile (1)
*Slovene: žol� (1)
*Spanish: bilis (1)
*Swedish: galla (1, 3)
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