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jaundice

[jawn-dis, jahn-] / ˈdʒɔn dɪs, ˈdʒɑn- /


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By the time a patient experiences signs, such as jaundice – a yellowing of the skin – or abdominal pain, the cancer has often already spread to other organs.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2026

Symptoms in humans may include fever, headache, muscle aches, jaundice, vomiting, diarrhea and skin rash.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2025

Among adults, infection usually results in symptoms, with jaundice occurring in more than 70% of patients, according to the CDC.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2025

"We're equipping health facilities at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels with the equipment to treat jaundice, primarily light boxes, but also detection and screening equipment," Toyin Saraki, who oversaw the launch, tells the BBC.

From BBC Jan. 7, 2025

Many wards would have been completely emptied had it not been for the admission of forty sailors—a rare type of jaundice was sweeping through the Royal Navy.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

And thus they go on to the end of their term of life, full of their own fixed ideas, with their eyes full of beams and jaundices and darkness and death. 

From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

Though undeniably popular, social media is regarded now with an increasingly jaundiced eye, as the suits against Meta have proved.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

In summary, we are viewing the failure of SPX to be able to convincingly push through to new all-time highs with a jaundiced eye.

From MarketWatch Jan. 8, 2026

Mr. Coen’s view of the contemporary dating scene seems both jaundiced and out of touch.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

From my more jaundiced view, however, the experience sounds more like an emotional roller coaster designed to sap constructive energy.

From Salon Jan. 19, 2025

A swathe of dirty yellow sponge spilled out and shivered on the backseat like an immense jaundiced liver.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

It was a clash of temperaments hopelessly at odds, in which the spoken word weighed little beside the mute antipathy jaundicing the mind.

From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee




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