black bile

Black bile was the humor identified with earth, since both were cold and dry.

She found she could not stand to be around him; things were bad enough without his black bile.

Projects "black bile" as a concussive effect from his eyes.

Melancholia in particular was caused by an excess of black bile.

I think it necessary to 'make a stand' against 'encroachments' of black bile.

Eggplant was off limits (too much black bile), as were heavy wines.

A bitter, black bile seemed to coat his tongue.

Black bile also flows from his nose, and carries a mace.

It was not just the extensive hemorrhaging or the vomiting of black bile.

Thus, a black mood signaled an excess of black bile.

Someone on the Golden Sun was vomiting black bile.

Hippocrates frequently wrote that an excess of black bile resulted in irrational thinking and behavior.

High levels of black bile was indicative of melancholy and pessimism.

He tears at his hair, then bends over and pukes a bloody, acidic black bile.

Treatments, like bloodletting and purging (to get rid of black bile), may have been worse than the disease.

Chaney backs off several steps, the sight of the black bile causing a gag reflex.

With a sickening gurgle, the black bile is vomited again, this time pouring from the nostrils and eyes as well.

If you had an extra dose of black bile, possibly in response to trauma, it could cause an imbalance of melancholy.

I suggest "atrabilious", from the Latin for black bile, thought by the ancients to be one of the body's four "humours".

The four humors of Hippocratic medicine are black bile (Gk.

The four humors were black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood.

Of the atrabilis, or black bile.

Saturn is also the god of time and the incarnation of melancholy, related to the black bile, which nowadays we call depression.

Drinking its black bile.

There was a smear of that black bile the monsters spat when injured by his elbow on a broken countertop.