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black bile
noun
- one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing gloominess.
black bile
noun
- archaic.one of the four bodily humours; melancholy See humour
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of black bile1
Example Sentences
Take humoral theory: In the Middle Ages, the body was thought to consist of four liquid components called humors鈥攂lood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.
鈥淚 think a toxic, black bile comes out every time you say something like that.鈥
The Greek physician Hippocrates believed that people鈥檚 personalities were governed by the amounts of phlegm, blood, black bile and yellow bile that flowed through their bodies.
Hellebore was prescribed in ancient Greece and the Middle Ages alike for its purgative effects, to rid the body of excess 鈥渂lack bile,鈥 the imagined cause of melancholy.
The ancient Greeks, for example, believed mental disorders arose when the digestive tract produced too much black bile.
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