black bile造句

Either of two bodily humors, black bile or yellow bile, in medieval physiology.

The black bile, sourly bitter, rose in Bonasera's throat, overflowed through tightly clenched teeth.

"As hypothesized by Galen, the four cardinal humours were blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile). The variant mixture of these humours in each person determined his "complexion"or temperament and his mental and physical qualities."

In the second century A.D., Galen reckoned that the cause was systemic, an excess of melancholy or black bile, one of the body’s four “humors,” brought on by bad diet and environmental circumstances.