Biliary

Definitions: Biliary

Biliary

Adjective

1. Relating to or containing bile.

2. Relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder.

Date "biliary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Biliary

Domain	Definitions
Health	Having to do with the liver, bile ducts, and/or gallbladder. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Biliary

Synonym: bilious (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Biliary

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Biliary

English words defined with "biliary": Biliary calculus, biliary ductule ♦ hepatic duct ♦ Lithofellic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "biliary": 1-Naphthylisothiocyanate ♦ Balloon Dilatation, Biliary Atresia, biliary colic, Biliary Fistula, Biliary Stricture, Biliary Tract, Biliary Tract Neoplasms, Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures, Butylscopolammonium Bromide ♦ Caerulein, Cefotiam, Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde, Cholestyramine ♦ Dicrocoelium, Dicyclomine ♦ equine biliary fever, Extrahepatic Biliary Tree ♦ Hemobilia, hepatobiliary ♦ Ioglycamic Acid ♦ Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic ♦ Lithotripsy, Laser, Liver Enzyme Tests ♦ Pipemidic Acid, Portoenterostomy, Hepatic, Postcholecystectomy Syndrome, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis ♦ Reovirus 3 ♦ Sphincterotomy, Transhepatic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Biliary

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Surgery of the liver, pancreas, and biliary tract : selected papers and discussion from the annual continuation course in surgery, "Surgery of the liver, pancreas and biliary tract," University of Minnesota, Department of Surgery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (reference) Biliary Tract Radiology (Medical Radiology) (reference) Biliary Tract Surgery (reference) Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System (reference) Laparoscopic Biliary Surgery (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Surgery Of The Liver & Biliary Tract Cd-rom (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Biliary

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Non-Fiction Usage: Biliary

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The cause of primary biliary cirrhosis is unknown. (references)
		The most common symptoms of primary biliary cirrhosis are itchy skin and fatigue. (references)
		Thus, most patients with typical biliary symptoms and gallstones should be treated. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Biliary

"Biliary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.88% of the time. "Biliary" is used about 269 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.88%	266	18,071
Noun (proper)	0.74%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	0.37%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	269	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Biliary

Expressions using "biliary": Biliary Atresia ♦ biliary calculus ♦ biliary colic ♦ biliary ductule ♦ Biliary Fistula ♦ Biliary Stricture ♦ Biliary Tract ♦ Biliary Tract Neoplasms ♦ Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures ♦ calculus biliary ♦ equine biliary fever ♦ Extrahepatic Biliary Tree ♦ Primary Biliary Cirrhosis. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "biliary": non-biliary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Biliary

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
primary biliary cirrhosis	115	biliary pancreatitis	3
biliary atresia	48	biliary primary	3
biliary colic	33	biliary cancer	3
biliary dyskinesia	27	biliary duct	3
biliary cirrhosis	17	biliary pain	3
biliary	14	biliary primary sclerosis	3
biliary disease	9	ascariasis biliary	3
biliary tract	5	biliary cirrohsis primary	3
biliary sludge	5	biliary cirrhosis secondary	2
biliary obstruction	5	primary biliary cirrosis	2
biliary scan	4	biliary disease primary	2
biliary stent	4	anatomy biliary	2
biliary tree	4	biliary tube	2
biliary disease tract	4	biliary bypass	2
biliary system	3	biliary dyskenesia	2
biliary damage leak	3	biliary dyskinesia symptom	2
		artesia biliary	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Biliary

Language		Translations for "biliary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nga vreri, i zemëruar (angry, crabbed, crabby, crusty, embittered, indignant, mad, rampant, Wroth), i vrerit. (various references)

Arabic		‏صفراوي (bilious). (various references)

Bulgarian		отнасящ се за жлъчката, жлъчен (acrid, adust, atrabilious, envenomed, poisonous). (various references)

Chinese		胆汁 (Bile). (various references)

Czech		žluèový. (various references)

Danish		biliaris. (various references)

Dutch		biliair. (various references)

Finnish		biliaarinen, sappi-. (various references)

French		biliaire. (various references)

German		biliaris, biliär, biliär, gallig (acerbic, acrid, caustic, gall-like, liverish). (various references)

Greek		χολικόσ (of the bile), χολικός, χοληφόρος, χοληδόχος. (various references)

Hebrew		אבן �"מר�" (biliary calculus, gallstone). (various references)

Hungarian		epe-. (various references)

Italian		biliare (bilious). (various references)

Manx		y vuighid, buighid (bile, gall, sallowness, yellowness). (various references)

Pig Latin		iliarybay

Portuguese		biliar. (various references)

Romanian		biliar (bilious). (various references)

Russian		относящийся к печени, желчный (acrimonious, adust, bilious, choleric, jaundiced, liverish, spleenful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bilijarni, žučni (bilious). (various references)

Spanish		biliar (bile). (various references)

Swedish		gall-. (various references)

Ukranian		жовчний (acrimonious, adust, atrabilarious, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bilious, choleric, jaundiced, liverish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Biliary

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	biliaris. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Biliary"

Words rhyming with "biliary" (pronounced 'Bil"ia*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Biliary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-l-r-y"
	-1 letter: airily.
	-2 letters: alibi, biali, bialy, brail, libra, libri, riyal.
	-3 letters: ably, abri, airy, aril, aryl, bail, birl, bray, byrl, ilia, lair, lari, liar, lira, liri, rail, rial.
	-4 letters: aby, ail, air, alb, arb, bal, bar, bay, bra, lab, lar, lay, lib, ray, ria, rib, rya, yar.
	-5 letters: ab, ai, al, ar, ay, ba, bi, by.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-l-r-y"
	+1 letter: brainily.
	+2 letters: arability, bifilarly, irascibly, irritably.
	+3 letters: bipolarity, brilliancy, curability, durability, friability, impartibly, invariably, liberality.
	+4 letters: adorability, arbitrarily, bearability, bibliolatry, bimillenary, bipartitely, bipyramidal, brainsickly, bricklaying, brilliantly, certifiably, drapability, drivability, erasability, formability, illiberally, infrangibly, insalubrity, irradicably, libationary, operability, partibility, portability, probability, readability, reliability, rentability, reusability, roadability, sorbability, trisyllabic, variability, wearability, workability.
	+5 letters: abolitionary, aboriginally, admirability, agreeability, alterability, bibliography, binocularity, bricklayings, brushability, crossability, desirability, dicarboxylic, drapeability, drillability, drinkability, driveability, forgeability, frangibility, herbicidally, heritability, honorability, illiberality, imperishably, ineradicably, inextricably, insurability, interlibrary, interminably, irascibility, irremediably, irritability, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, memorability, myofibrillar, obligatorily, permeability, plebiscitary, pregnability, printability, rabbinically, radiobiology, removability, renewability, reputability, separability, severability, shareability, subsidiarily, tolerability, traceability, tractability, trainability, treatability, trustability, venerability.
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