Bilirubin vs. Bile

Bilirubinnoun

(biochemistry) A bile pigment that is a product of the breakdown of the heme portion of hemoglobin (which occurs within macrophages as they digest red blood cells), and which is responsible for the yellowish color seen in bruises. Extremely high levels of bilirubin may cause jaundice.

Bilirubinnoun

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

Bilirubinnoun

an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice

Bilirubinnoun

an orange-yellow pigment formed in the liver by the breakdown of haemoglobin and excreted in bile.

Bilirubin

Bilirubin (BR) is a yellow compound that occurs in the normal catabolic pathway that breaks down heme in vertebrates. This catabolism is a necessary process in the body's clearance of waste products that arise from the destruction of aged or abnormal red blood cells.

Bilenoun

(biochemistry) A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

Bilenoun

bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

Bilenoun

Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

Bilenoun

(obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).

Bilenoun

A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

Bilenoun

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.

Bilenoun

A boil.

Bilenoun

a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats

Bile

Bile (from latin bilis), or gall, is a dark-green-to-yellowish-brown fluid produced by the liver of most vertebrates that aids the digestion of lipids in the small intestine. In humans, bile is produced continuously by the liver (liver bile) and stored and concentrated in the gallbladder.