Meanings
adjectivenervo-bilious (comparative more nervo-bilious, superlative most nervo-bilious)
comparative more nervo-bilious · superlative most nervo-bilious
- obsoletehuman sciencesEasily excitable and with energy and strength of mind and body.
Patients to whom chamomilla is suitable are of a sensitive, irritable disposition, and do not bear pain with stoical indifference. They belong either to the purely nervous or the nervo-bilious temperament.
1876, E[dward] B[arton] Shuldham, Headaches: Their Causes and Treatment, second edition, London: E. Gould & Son, page 51
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