Jaundice

ˈdʒɔːndɪs

noun

a medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, typically resulting from liver disease or obstruction of the bile duct

Jaundice is a condition that causes yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes due to high levels of bilirubin in the bloodstream. It can be a symptom of various underlying medical issues and requires medical attention for proper diagnosis and treatment.

"Since you are gone we have nothing but frostbites, chilblains, jaundice, gonorrhea, self-inflicted wounds, pneumonia and hard and soft chancres. Every week someone gets wounded by rock fragments. Do you think I would do right to marry Miss Barkley—after the war of course?"

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge, humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as by the unusual yellowish incrustations overgrowing him, seemed afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity.

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

"Precisely so, madame; this man was myself; for a fortnight I had been at that hotel, during which period I had cured my valet de chambre of a fever, and my landlord of the jaundice, so that I really acquired a reputation as a skilful physician. We discoursed a long time, madame, on different subjects; of Perugino, of Raphael, of manners, customs, of the famous Aqua Tofana, of which they had told you, I think you said, that certain individuals in Perugia had preserved the secret."

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Mr Bloom, glancing sideways up from the cross he had made, saw the foreman's sallow face, think he has a touch of jaundice, and beyond the obedient reels feeding in huge webs of paper.

James Joyce

Ulysses

You go to lunch with the Administration, and the Vice-President hears of it just in time to have a touch of jaundice.

John Buchan

The Courts of the Morning

"Well, I just feel that it is. Sure, I'd be as yellow as a Chink with the jaundice if I let you go alone. Merribanks sent me here to look after the machinery, and if the machinery is down at the bottom of the sea, then it's a sure thing that it's me for the bottom. Where those steel castings are—that's the address of Bill Scanlan—whether the folk round him are crazy or no."

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Maracot Deep

I widened the sphere of their application, trying the earth and water and fasting treatment in cases of wounds, fevers, dyspepsia, jaundice and other complaints, with success on most occasions.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Jake took two quick steps to the podium with its little cluster of buttons and reached for the one he thought the Tick-Took man had pushed. Gasher was backing along the curved wall, the tubes of light painting his mandrus-riddled face in a succession of sick colors: bile-green, fever-red, jaundice-yellow. Now it was the Tick-Tock Man standing below the ventilator grille where Oy was watching.

Stephen King

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)

He was afraid that he had jaundice.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

'That shows how much you don't know,' Yossarian bluffed, and told Doc Daneeka about the troublesome pain in his liver that had troubled Nurse Duckett and Nurse Cramer and all the doctors in the hospital because it wouldn't become jaundice and wouldn't go away.

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22