picromel
Meanings
noun
- A colourless viscous substance having a bittersweet taste, formerly supposed to be the essential principle of bile, but later identified as a mixture, principally of salts of glycocholic acid and taurocholic acid.
Word forms
Etymology
Ancient Greek [Term?], meaning "bitter honey".
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