The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥῆσις“flow”
- English todaycholeresis
From chole- (“bile”) + Ancient Greek ῥῆσις (rhêsis, “flow”) (compare cholestasis) or αἵρεσις (haíresis, “a taking”) or -uresis.
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choleresis
Today it means: The secretion of bile (by the liver rather than the gallbladder) Full definition →
Ancient Greek ῥῆσις