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Cho"late (?), n. [Gr. &?; bile.]
(Chem.) A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium
cholate.

||Chol`e*cys"tis (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. &?; bile + &?; bladder.] (Anat.) The gall
bladder.

Chol`e*cys*tot"o*my (?), n.
[Cholecystis + Gr. &?; to cut.] (Surg.) The
operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the
removal of a gallstone.

Chol`e*dol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;
bile + -logy. Cf. F. cholédologie.]
(Med.) A treatise on the bile and bilary
organs. Dunglison.

&fist; Littré says that the word
cholédologie is absolutely barbarous, there being
no Greek word &?;. A proper form would be cholology.

Cho*le"ic (?), a. (Physiol.
Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as,
choleic acid.

Chol"er (?), n. [OE. coler,
F. colère anger, L. cholera a bilious
complaint, fr.


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