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black bile::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | melancholy |
| Type of | bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance |
Examples of black bile
black bile
Black bile was the humor identified with earth, since both were cold and dry.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In real life, good men may try to gulp down the black bile of their devastation and move on.
From the time.com
Those with too much yellow bile were choleric, and those with too much black bile were melancholic.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the Hippocratic tradition, melancholics were advised to drink white wine, in order to counteract the black bile.
From the psychcentral.com
If Roth's mid-period novels are masterpieces of sarcastic choler, then the prevailing humour in this late quartet is black bile.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Galen considered the spleen to be a source of one of the four bodily humors, specifically the black bile associated with irritable, melancholic cranks.
From the nytimes.com
After Margaret's cancer spreads, her stomach stops functioning properly, and so her undigested food empties out of her torso into a bag, along with black bile.
From the nytimes.com
We also hear about Isabelle, Celine's greatest fan, who, dumped at a hospital by the family who have tortured her, vomits black bile, then her organs, then her bones.
From the independent.co.uk
Within the humoral theories, mania was viewed as arising from an excess of yellow bile, or a mixture of black and yellow bile.
From the en.wikipedia.org
