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Cholestasis is when bile flow slows or stops, letting bile build up in the blood and often yellowing the skin.
means A condition in which bile flow from the liver slows or stops, causing bile components to build up in the blood instead of draining into the gut.
from Built from Greek chole, 'bile,' and stasis, 'a standing still' — the same stasis that shows up in words like hemostasis (blood standing still). Medicine bolted the two together in the 1800s-1900s coinage style common to clinical Greek compounds, naming the condition exactly as it behaves: bile that stops moving where it should flow.
- literal meaning
- bile standing still, not flowing to the gut
- telltale sign
- itching worse at night, no rash to blame
- pregnancy version
- third trimester culprit, resolves fast after delivery
- lab tipoff
- bile acids spike before bilirubin ever does