Usage of "black bile"

A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy.

Uso de black bile em inglês

At that moment it seemed like a living thing, oozing black bile. 
 Book of lost threads 

But black bile-thatglistening centerpiece of Galen's physiology-wasnowhere to be found. 
 The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer 

Ajib felt fear and rage churn in his stomach like black bile. 
 The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate 

She has suffered all this till her waters have become waves of black bile. 
 From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 

Hippocrates thought melancholia was caused by too much black bile. 
 Radio NZ 

Clement, in whom black bile generously flows, works at home. 
 The new yorker 

The black bile, sourly bitter, rose in Bonasera's throat, overflowed through tightly clenched teeth. 
 The Godfather 

Now the hymn of Puritanical gloom-the peacemaker with Providence performing devotional exercises in black bile. 
 Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 

Bidwell's facade cracked and some of his anger and frustration spilled out like black bile. 
 Speaks the Nightbird 

She's vomited blood and black bile all over herself. 
 Dark Matter 

All yesterday I was vomiting black bile. 
 The Hyperion Cantos 

According to this celebrated theory there are four humors in the body-blood ,phlegm ,yellowbile, and black bile. 
 A History of Science — Volume 1 

Ancient Romans blamed an excess of " black bile." 
 Wired 

The midwife clamps her mouth over his nose and mouth, sucks and spits black bile on the floor. 
 The King’s Curse 

There was no black bile. 
 The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer 

Calvin was bleeding profusely, breathing sporadically, and coughing up lumps of black bile onto the cement beneath his head. 
 Gods go begging 

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Black bile nas variantes da língua

Estados Unidos da América

Comum

Significados de black bile em inglês