Bile
noun
A bitter, greenish-brown liquid produced by the liver that helps in digestion, especially fat.
The doctor might ask to check your bile levels if your digestion isn't normal.
Often appears as...
- bile duct
- bile acid
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Technical
noun
A feeling of anger or disgust.
His words were full of bile towards his ex-company.
Often appears as...
- full of bile
- spew bile
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Disapproving
noun
A bitter, greenish-brown liquid produced by the liver that helps in digestion, especially fat.
The doctor might ask to check your bile levels if your digestion isn't normal.
Often appears as...
- bile duct
- bile acid
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A feeling of anger or disgust.
His words were full of bile towards his ex-company.
Often appears as...
- full of bile
- spew bile
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Digestive Aid
Bile is essential for breaking down and digesting fats in the food you eat.
After a heavy meal, bile works to digest the fats.
Pro Tip 2/3Liver Product
Bile is not food or drink, but a fluid made by your liver and stored in the gallbladder.
Liver diseases can affect bile production and lead to health issues.
Pro Tip 3/3Color Indicator
Bile's greenish-brown color can be noticeable if someone vomits after eating, indicating digestion issues.
The unusual color in his vomit was due to bile.
Pro Tip 1/3Digestive Aid
Bile is essential for breaking down and digesting fats in the food you eat.
After a heavy meal, bile works to digest the fats.
Pro Tip 2/3Liver Product
Bile is not food or drink, but a fluid made by your liver and stored in the gallbladder.
Liver diseases can affect bile production and lead to health issues.
Pro Tip 3/3Color Indicator
Bile's greenish-brown color can be noticeable if someone vomits after eating, indicating digestion issues.
The unusual color in his vomit was due to bile.
Pro Tip 1/3Digestive Aid
Bile is essential for breaking down and digesting fats in the food you eat.
After a heavy meal, bile works to digest the fats.
Pro Tip 2/3Liver Product
Bile is not food or drink, but a fluid made by your liver and stored in the gallbladder.
Liver diseases can affect bile production and lead to health issues.
Pro Tip 3/3Color Indicator
Bile's greenish-brown color can be noticeable if someone vomits after eating, indicating digestion issues.
The unusual color in his vomit was due to bile.
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How do vitamins work? -...
this trip into the blood is a little more adventurous. These vitamins make it through the stomach and the intestine, where an acidic substance called bile flows in from the liver, breaking up the fat and preparing it for absorption through the intestinal wall. Because fat-soluble vitamins can't make use of the blood's watery nature, they need something else to move them around,
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What does the liver do?...
that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones. It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile. Like an eco-friendly treatment plant, the liver uses cells called hepatocytes
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A cleanse won't detox...
You can think of it almost like a factory. It takes nutrients from substances that we consume, food, drinks, medicines, breaks them down so they can either be packaged in a way that's usable -- like cholesterol and protein, for instance -- or removed as waste in the bile or via the kidneys,
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Saving Bears In The...
Bev our farms certainly in this part of the world don't breed animals they remove animals from the wild to extract a product from them in this case bear bile and continue to extract that product from them until the animal passes away and then they remove another one from the wild
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The Fight to Stop...
some of these bears are being kept as pets some of these bears we understand were to be traded into the bear bile industry or bear farms younger animal would be more likely to produce higher-quality bile and other bears were likely to be traded live to become parts
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Parasitic Mind Control PIPE...
vegetation the ants and the Fluke larva inside the ants all in one bite once inside the cow the worms burrow out of the stomach and into the liver where they develop into adults and dine on liver tissue they lay eggs that are excreted from the liver into the bile
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How your digestive...
and enzyme-rich juices from the stomach wall that start to dissolve the food and break down its proteins. These hormones also alert the pancreas, liver, and gallbladder to produce digestive juices and transfer bile, a yellowish-green liquid that digests fat,
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A brief history of...
the human body and soul were controlled by four fluids, known as humors, and their balance directly influenced a person's health and temperament. Melancholia comes from melaina kole, the word for black bile, the humor believed to cause sadness.
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What causes constipation?...
the ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid colon, which connects with the rectum and anus. The small intestine delivers stool consisting of ingested food, bile, and digestive juices to the large intestine.
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The surprising cause of...
awash in hormones and chemicals. The stomach is under constant attack by digestive enzymes, bile, proteins, microbes, and the stomach's own acid.
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How do vitamins work? -...
this trip into the blood is a little more adventurous. These vitamins make it through the stomach and the intestine, where an acidic substance called bile flows in from the liver, breaking up the fat and preparing it for absorption through the intestinal wall. Because fat-soluble vitamins can't make use of the blood's watery nature, they need something else to move them around,
Video examples
What does the liver do?...
that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones. It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile. Like an eco-friendly treatment plant, the liver uses cells called hepatocytes
Video examples
A cleanse won't detox...
You can think of it almost like a factory. It takes nutrients from substances that we consume, food, drinks, medicines, breaks them down so they can either be packaged in a way that's usable -- like cholesterol and protein, for instance -- or removed as waste in the bile or via the kidneys,
Video examples
Saving Bears In The...
Bev our farms certainly in this part of the world don't breed animals they remove animals from the wild to extract a product from them in this case bear bile and continue to extract that product from them until the animal passes away and then they remove another one from the wild
Video examples
The Fight to Stop...
some of these bears are being kept as pets some of these bears we understand were to be traded into the bear bile industry or bear farms younger animal would be more likely to produce higher-quality bile and other bears were likely to be traded live to become parts
Video examples
Parasitic Mind Control PIPE...
vegetation the ants and the Fluke larva inside the ants all in one bite once inside the cow the worms burrow out of the stomach and into the liver where they develop into adults and dine on liver tissue they lay eggs that are excreted from the liver into the bile
Video examples
How your digestive...
and enzyme-rich juices from the stomach wall that start to dissolve the food and break down its proteins. These hormones also alert the pancreas, liver, and gallbladder to produce digestive juices and transfer bile, a yellowish-green liquid that digests fat,
Video examples
A brief history of...
the human body and soul were controlled by four fluids, known as humors, and their balance directly influenced a person's health and temperament. Melancholia comes from melaina kole, the word for black bile, the humor believed to cause sadness.
Video examples
What causes constipation?...
the ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid colon, which connects with the rectum and anus. The small intestine delivers stool consisting of ingested food, bile, and digestive juices to the large intestine.
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The surprising cause of...
awash in hormones and chemicals. The stomach is under constant attack by digestive enzymes, bile, proteins, microbes, and the stomach's own acid.
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Sharon Jones
American Musician
At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of my pancreas, and a foot-and-a-half of my small intestine, and built me another bile duct and connected it to my stomach. It turned out to be pancreatic cancer, stage two, so, very aggressive.
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Val McDermid
Scottish Writer
I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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James Hillman
American Psychologist
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.
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Gary Lineker
English Footballer
I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.
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Nick Clegg
British Politician
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
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Marc Maron
American Entertainer
The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
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Ann Coulter
American Journalist
I am the gold standard for liberal bile!
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Sharon Jones
American Musician
At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of my pancreas, and a foot-and-a-half of my small intestine, and built me another bile duct and connected it to my stomach. It turned out to be pancreatic cancer, stage two, so, very aggressive.
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Val McDermid
Scottish Writer
I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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James Hillman
American Psychologist
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.
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Gary Lineker
English Footballer
I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.
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Nick Clegg
British Politician
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
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Marc Maron
American Entertainer
The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
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Ann Coulter
American Journalist
I am the gold standard for liberal bile!
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