CHOLESTASIS

acholia, cholestasis

(noun) a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

cholestasis (countable and uncountable, plural cholestases)

(pathology) The suppression of the flow of bile caused by an obstruction associated with the liver.

Source: Wiktionary



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29 November 2024

POPULATED

(adjective) furnished with inhabitants; ā€œthe area is well populatedā€; ā€œforests populated with all kinds of wild lifeā€


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Coffee Trivia

In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.

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