Icterus is also known as jaundice or yellow jaundice, meaning that a yellow pigment is found in the blood and in the tissues.
Risk factors for icterus may include the presence of fleas or ticks, infection with feline leukemia virus or feline infectious peritonitis virus, residence in or travel to areas endemic for liver flukes or fungal diseases, prolonged anorexia, and ingestion of drugs or toxins.
Icterus neonatorum is the jaundice seen in newborns.
The causative factors of icterus neonatorum are dampness-heat and cold-dampness which are affected from the mother, or during delivery, or after birth.
Eliminating dampness and relieving jaundice is the chief therapeutic principle for icterus neonatorum, but the therapy of clearing away heat should be supplemented for the cases with dampness-heat syndrome, and the therapy of warming middle-jiao for those cases with cold-dampness syndrome.
Icterus definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At least one medical dictionary defines icterus as the presence of jaundice seen in the sclera of the eye.
Curiously, both icterus and jaundice come from the Greek.
Icterus is a Latinized (-us) form of the Greek word "ikteros" and to the ancient Greeks signified both "jaundice" and "a yellow bird." It was thought that jaundice could be cured if the patient gazed at the bird.
Icterus Index(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The number reported under ICTERUS is an estimation of the bilirubin concentration in mg/dL rounded to the nearest whole number.
The icterus index is not affected by lipemia and can be used to determine if there is hyperbilirubinemia.
For example, a lipemic serum sample from a dog that has an ICTERUS index result of "4" has a bilirubin concentration approximately 3.5 to 4.4 mg/dL, which indicates that the dog has hyperbilirubinemia.
Icterus: 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
Icterus: Pathologic process consisting of an abnormal increase in the amount of BILIRUBIN in the circulating blood, which may result in JAUNDICE.
The following list attempts to classify Icterus into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Although direct human impacts on oriole populations are unknown, the increase in number of orioles wintering in temperate North America may be due to an increase in bird feeders in backyards and elsewhere.
Baltimore orioles were previously considered a supspecies of northern orioles (Icterus galbula galbula) along with Bullock's orioles (Icterus glabula bullockii), a western North American oriole.
They are currently considered separate species: Baltimore orioles, Icterus galbula, and Bullock's orioles, Icterus bullockii.
eyeOrbit - Ocular Icterus with Polydactylism and Syndactylism:Hereditary Spherocytic Hemolytic Anemia(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ocular Icterus with Polydactylism and Syndactylism: Components of Hereditary Spherocytic Hemolytic Anemia: Minkowski-Chauffard Syndrome: Author: [ William Charles Caccamise Sr, MD: Retired Clinical Asst.
Even at the often-quoted estimate of 42.8 mmol/l (2.5 mg/dl) at which scleral icterus is detected, approximately one-third of medical examiners in our study did not detect scleral icterus.
The use of “ ocular icterus “ avoids this linguistic argument.
Anxiety Zone - Jaundice, icterus, yellowing of the skin, bilirubin
Jaundice, technically known as icterus, is yellowing of the skin, sclera (the white of the eyes) and mucous membranes caused by increased levels of bilirubin in the system.
Usually the concentration of bilirubin in the blood must exceed 2-3mg/dL for the coloration to be easily visible.
Maryland State Bird - Baltimore Oriole - icterus baltimore
The current becomes rapid, and ere long several of the windings of the great stream have been met and passed, and with these new scenes present themselves to the view.
BALTIMORE ORIOLE or GOLDEN ROBIN, Icterus Baltimore, Nutt,.
ADW: Icterus galb...: Classification(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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