Icterus

Definitions: Icterus

Icterus

Noun

1. Yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia.

2. Type genus of the Icteridae.

Date "icterus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Etymology: Icterus \Ic"te*rus\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Icteric,]. (Websters 1913)

"Icterus" is a common misspelling or typo for: citrus, uterus.

Domain	Definitions
Health	Jaundice. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Icterus is the genus name for orioles in the Americas.

Icterus is also the medical term for jaundice.

Synonyms: Icterus

Synonyms: genus Icterus (n), jaundice (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Icterus

English words defined with "icterus": genus Icterus ♦ Icterus galbula, Icterus galbula bullockii, Icterus galbula galbula, icterus neonatorum, Icterus spurius ♦ Troupial. (references)

Specialty definitions using "icterus": Anaplasma infection ♦ Crigler-Najjar Syndrome ♦ gallsickness ♦ newborn icterus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Icterus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (icterus), Dutch (icterus).

Expressions using "icterus": genus Icterus ♦ icterus galbula ♦ icterus galbula bullockii ♦ icterus galbula galbula ♦ Icterus icterus ♦ Icterus leucopteryx ♦ icterus neonatorum ♦ icterus spurius ♦ infectious icterus ♦ newborn icterus. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "icterus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i verdhë (cadaverous, Daffodil, daft, flaxen, jaundice, jaundiced, livid, pale, stramineous, xanthous, yellow), i sëmurë nga verdhëza, verdhëz (jaundice). (various references)

Arabic		‏اليرقان, ‏الصفر مرض. (various references)

Bulgarian		вид американска птица (scissortail), жълтеница (jaundice, yellows). (various references)

Czech		žloutenka (jaundice, yellows). (various references)

Danish		icterus (jaundice). (various references)

Dutch		icterus (jaundice). (various references)

Finnish		Weilin tauti (infectious icterus, Weil's disease), vastasyntyneen normaali keltaisuus (newborn icterus, newborn jaundice, physiologic jaundice), vaikea virusperäinen ikterus (catarrhal icterus, infectious icterus), vaikea ikterus (icterus gravis), obstruktiivinen ikterus (obstructive icterus, obstructive jaundice), mekaaninen ikterus (obstructive icterus, obstructive jaundice), leptospiroosi (infectious icterus, leptospirosis, Weil's disease), ,"fysiologinen ikterus". (various references)

French		ictere, ictère, jaunisse. (various references)

German		Ikterus (jaundice). (various references)

Greek		ίκτερος (jaundice). (various references)

Hungarian		sárgaság (jaundice, yellowness, yellows). (various references)

Italian		ittero (jaundice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� �黄疸 (nuclear icterus). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かくおう� �" (nuclear icterus). (various references)

Pig Latin		icterusay.(various references)

Portuguese		ictero (jaundice), icterícia (ictus, jaundice), icterícia, que padece de icterícia. (various references)

Russian		желтуха (jaundice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ikterus, žutica (hepatitis, jaundice). (various references)

Spanish		ictericia (jaundice). (various references)

Swedish		gulsot (jaundice). (various references)

Turkish		sarılık (jaundice, yellow, yellowness). (various references)

Ukranian		жовтяниця (jaundice), жовтизна (yellow, yellowness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "icterus": icteruses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "icterus" (pronounced 'Ic"te*rus'): Acarus, Arcturus, Birrus, Bosporus, brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Carus, Ceratosaurus, Cerberus, Churrus, Citrus, Coenurus, Corchorus, Crus, Cryophorus, Cyperus, Cyprus, Elasmosaurus, Electrophorus, Eosaurus, Eurus, Eurypterus, gyrus, hadrosaurus, Homarus, humerus, Hydrus, ichthyosaurus, Jeterus, Labrus, Laurus, Malapterurus, Morosaurus, Morus, Mosasaurus, OEstrus, Paleosaurus, Palinurus, Papyrus, Pelorus, Pentamerus, Phoenicopterus, Pleiosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Pliosaurus, Polyporus, Polypterus, Proterosaurus, Protopterus, Pylorus, Pyrophorus, Pyrus, Scarus, Sciurus, Semichorus, Silurus, Strato-cirrus, Susurrus, Tartarus, Teleosaurus, thesaurus, torus, Trichiurus, Tylarus, urus, uterus, Varus, Virus, Walrus, Zephyrus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: curites.
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: citers, citrus, cruets, cruise, cruset, curets, curies, curite, cuties, eructs, rectus, recuts, rictus, rustic, steric, suiter, trices, truces, uretic.
	-2 letters: cesti, cires, citer, cites, crest, cries, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curie, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutis, ecrus, eruct, etuis, ictus, recti, recut, rices, rites, scute, sieur, sucre, suite, tiers, tires, trice, tries, truce, trues, ureic, uteri.
	-3 letters: cire, cist, cite, cris, crus, cues, cure, curs, curt, cute, cuts, ecru, ecus, erst, etic, etui, ices, ires, recs, reis, rest, rets, rice, rise, rite, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, scut, sect, sice, sire, site, stir, suer, suet, suit, sure, tics, tier, ties, tire, true, tuis, uric, user.
	-4 letters: cis, cue, cur, cut, ecu, ers, ice, ire, its, rec, rei, res, ret, rue, rut, sec, sei, ser, set, sic, sir, sit, sri, sue, tic, tie, tis, tui, use, uts.
	-5 letters: er, es, et, is, it, re, si, ti, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: cerusite, citreous, citruses, crudites, crustier, cuprites, curdiest, curliest, curtsied, curtsies, curviest, cutesier, eucrites, outcries, pictures, piecrust, recruits, rictuses, security, suricate, utricles.
	+2 letters: actuaries, cauteries, ceintures, centuries, cerusites, cerussite, cinctures, costumier, countries, courtiers, courtside, cretinous, critiques, croupiest, cruddiest, crudities, cruelties, crumbiest, crummiest, crustiest, curatives, curtesies, cutleries, diuretics, enuretics, fruticose, heuristic, icteruses, incrusted, intercuts, neuritics, neurotics, outprices, piecrusts, raucities, reinducts, reticules, rusticate, scripture, scurfiest, scurviest, smutchier, spruciest, stricture, supercity, suricates, tinctures, toreutics, truancies, turmerics, urticates.
	+3 letters: acquitters, autarchies, becrusting, bifurcates, butcheries, cauterizes, centauries, centurions, certitudes, cerussites, churchiest, ciguateras, circuities, circulates, clustering, confitures, continuers, coquetries, costumiers, courtesied, courtesies, courtliest, courtsides, couturiers, crassitude, criteriums, crumbliest, crumpliest, crunchiest, crustiness, curiousest, curtailers, curtilages, curtseying, customizer, cutcheries, discounter, ecotourism, ecotourist, encrusting, eurythmics, fructifies, fruitcakes, graticules, grouchiest, heuristics, incurvates, insecurity, instructed, introduces, lacustrine, locutories, lubricates, micturates, pasticheur, pedicurist, picturizes, puckeriest, putrescine, quercetins, raunchiest, recruiters, rectitudes, rediscount, reductions, requiescat, revictuals, rheumatics, rubricates, rusticated, rusticates, sclerotium, scriptures, scrubbiest, scruffiest, scrutineer, scrutinies, scrutinise, scrutinize, scuttering, secularist, secularity, securities, securitize, strictures, succincter, superbitch, superthick, supertonic, surjection, surjective, testicular, trucklines, turgencies, unscripted, victualers.
	+4 letters: aeronautics, apicultures, articulates, auctioneers, autocracies, avicultures, cafetoriums, caricatures, cartularies, casuistries, centrifuges, churchliest, circuitries, circumspect, circumvents, citrullines, commixtures, computerise, computerist, congruities, consumerist, contributes, corequisite, costumeries, coterminous, counterbids, counterions, countersign, countersink, countersuit, countryside, courtesying, courtliness, couturieres, crassitudes, credulities, curiosities, curtainless, customizers, cysticercus, destructing, destruction, destructive, discounters, discourtesy, disjuncture, disturbance, ecotourisms, ecotourists, electuaries, elucidators, enunciators, eructations, eucharistic, eurhythmics, excruciates, executrices, executrixes, haircutters, huckstering, hucksterism, inscrutable, instructive, intercampus, intercourse, introducers, judicatures, lactiferous, lectureship, lubricities, misconstrue, multicourse, multiscreen, multisource, neuroticism, nunciatures, obscurities, obstructive, pasticheurs, pedicurists, persecuting, persecution, persecutive, perspicuity, picturesque, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, precautions, precipitous, prosecuting, prosecution, putrescible, putrescines, quercitrons, reacquaints, rediscounts, renunciates, requiescats, resculpting, resuscitate, reticulates, rusticities, sanctuaries, scouthering, scroungiest, scrutineers, scrutinised, scrutinises, scrutinized, scrutinizer, scrutinizes, secularists, securitized, securitizes, sericulture, specularity, spherulitic, subcurative, subdirector, subliteracy, subtractive, supercities, superinfect, superscript, supertonics, supremacist, surjections, terricolous, trifurcates, tuberculins, ulcerations, ultrafiches, unclarities, undertricks, unrealistic, uricotelism, ventriculus, victuallers, voyeuristic.
	+5 letters: acquirements, agricultures, anticonsumer, aquicultures, articulacies, bacteriurias, bankruptcies, candidatures, capitularies, carburetions, centrifugals, charcuteries, chartularies, circumstance, coadjutrices, computerised, computerises, computerists, computerizes, computerniks, constructive, consumerists, conterminous, corequisites, coulometries, countercries, counterfeits, counterfires, counterfoils, countermines, counterpoise, counterraids, countersigns, countersinks, counterspies, counterstain, countersuing, countersuits, countervails, counterviews, countrysides, crematoriums, crenulations, crustinesses, curabilities, curtailments, decrepitudes, destructible, destructions, discomfiture, discourteous, disjunctures, disturbances, encrustation, equivocators, euchromatins, euhemeristic, excursionist, executioners, executorship, extramusical, gesticulator, hermeneutics, heteroecious, hucksterisms, incertitudes, incurvatures, insecurities, instructress, insurrection, intercluster, intercourses, internuncios, jocularities, judicatories, lectureships, maricultures, matriculates, mercurations, meretricious, microtubules, misconstrued, misconstrues, mucoproteins, multicourses, multiservice, natriuretics, neurasthenic, neurochemist, neuroleptics, neuroticisms, neutralistic, noncountries, obstructives, overcautions, overcautious, overdiscount, particulates, peritrichous, persecutions, pertinacious, pisciculture, plutocracies, portcullises, prosecutions, pulchritudes, recirculates, reconstitute, recruitments, recultivates, rediscounted, reductionism, reductionist, reduplicates, reeducations, reinoculates, reintroduces, relubricates, reluctancies, reluctations, resurrecting, resurrection, resuscitated, resuscitates, resuscitator, reunionistic, rubefacients, scrutinizers, scurrilities, secularistic, secularities, securitizing, sericultural, sericultures, silviculture, stringcourse, subcuratives, subdirectors, superbitches, supercabinet, superinfects, superplastic, superscripts, supremacists, surrealistic, sylviculture, therapeutics, truculencies, tuberculosis, turbulencies, ultraprecise, unchristened, undistracted, unhysterical, uninstructed, unrestricted, uricotelisms, vermiculites, vesicularity, vinicultures, viticultures.
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