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Your liver's way of turning you into a human highlighter when it quits filtering.
means A condition where skin and eyes turn yellow because bilirubin, a pigment the liver normally clears, builds up in the blood.
from From French 'jaunisse,' built on 'jaune' meaning yellow, which traces back to Latin 'galbinus.' The medical sense is straightforward — yellow sickness, named for exactly what it does to you. The word also drifted into a figurative meaning, 'jaundiced view,' from old medical theory that too much yellow bile soured a person's temper and outlook, tinting how they saw the world.
- the cause
- bilirubin builds up because liver cannot clear it
- the tell
- eyes yellow before skin usually does
- newborn version
- common and often harmless, livers just need to catch up
- the word
- from French jaune, literally yellow