ALL meanings of bile
bile
B b - uncountable noun bile Bile is a liquid produced by your liver which helps you to digest fat. 3
- uncountable noun bile Bile is the bad-smelling liquid that comes out of your mouth when you vomit with no food in your stomach. 3
- uncountable noun bile Bile is anger or bitterness towards someone or something. 3
- noun bile a bitter greenish to golden brown alkaline fluid secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. It is discharged during digestion into the duodenum, where it aids the emulsification and absorption of fats 3
- noun bile irritability or peevishness 3
- noun bile either of two bodily humours, one of which (black bile) was thought to cause melancholy and the other (yellow bile) anger 3
- noun bile the bitter, alkaline, yellow-brown or greenish fluid secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder: it is discharged into the duodenum and helps in digestion, esp. of fats 3
- noun bile either of two bodily humors (black bile, or melancholy, and yellow bile, or choler) in ancient physiology 3
- noun bile bitterness; anger 3
- noun bile digestive juice 1
- noun bile bad temper 1
- noun bile Physiology. a bitter, alkaline, yellow or greenish liquid, secreted by the liver, that aids in absorption and digestion, especially of fats. 1
- noun bile ill temper; peevishness. 1
- noun bile Old Physiology. either of two humors associated with anger and gloominess. 1
- noun bile (biochemistry) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. 0
- noun bile bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility. 0
- noun bile Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology. 0
- noun bile (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A boil (kind of swelling). 0