icterus

1. 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

   Synonymsjaundice

   Broadersymptom

   Narrowerjaundice of the newbornkernicterus

   Partshyperbilirubinemia
2. 2.

   type genus of the Icteridae

   Synonymsgenus Icterus

   Broaderbird genus

   Part ofIcteridae

Other forms of icterus

plural

icteruses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about icterus

What does icterus mean?

icterus means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in icterus?

icterus has 3 syllables: ic-te-rus. The stress falls on "ic".

What is another word for icterus?

Close synonyms include jaundice, genus Icterus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is icterus a common word?

icterus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.