English Explanatory Dictionary

choleretic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Stimulating the production of bile by the liver.
noun
  1. A drug which stimulates the production of bile by the liver.

Word forms

choleretic more choleretic most choleretic choleretics

Etymology

From German cholereticum, from modern Latin choleresis (“bile secretion from the liver”) (modelled on diuretic).

Related words

cholagogic choleric cholekinetic cholepoietic cholestatic cholagogue cholekinesis choleresis cholepoiesis cholestasis

Derived words

anticholeretic hypercholeretic
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