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jaundice

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


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As the Aedes aegypti mosquito expanded its range across more of the Americas, it brought with it the delirium, jaundice, and aching joints of yellow fever.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

For many of those living with cerebral palsy in the country, their condition was caused by a common phenomenon among newborns - neonatal jaundice.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025

If it didn’t become jaundice and went away they could discharge him.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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 Alexander Whyte

Sarah told the BBC she had to plead with doctors at City Hospital for her son to be seen by senior doctors after he began having seizures and became jaundiced.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 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

The first four made a point of swapping directors and moods and even Ethan’s core identity: Brian De Palma made him a jaundiced naif; John Woo, a hot-blooded flirt; J.J.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

It was weird to watch his smooth, muscular flesh age, turn a jaundiced yellow, and start shriveling on the bone.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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 Mark Lee Luther


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