Sentences with phrase «black bile»

Then, reincarnated as a cute cannibal, she proceeds to spend the balance of this gratuitous splatter flick making major mayhem, projectile - vomiting black bile when not luring unsuspecting males into the woods in order to eat them alive.

Despite the science which allegedly tells us «what it is» (as Peter Kramer puts it) regarding the «disease» of depression, sometimes black bile is the proper «physiological» response to disappointment in the possibilities of political choice and persuasion in terms of a slate of candidates which inadequately present themselves and their plans as ways to deal with our real problems.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's Backwards and Anachronistic Uncle Who Likes AM Talk Radio and Reruns of 7th Heaven: «Hey Antonie, how's that cure for bodily humor imbalance in black bile coming?»

(In the introduction to Jackson's classic textbook Melancholia and Depression, one will find that in the time of Hippocrates, 5th century B.C., melancholia was associated with black bile, autumn, and cold / dry weather).

2008 The Station 2008, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman, Miami, FL Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles, CA Black Bile, Red Humour: Aspects of Melancholy, curated by Oliver Zybok, Center for Arts and Culture, Montabaur, Germany

It's like a lay person arguing with a doctor, telling him that your strep throat isn't caused by a bacteria, it is caused by a black bile Humor.

(in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.

The Talmudists saw the spleen as the source of laughter, which 12th - century physician and poet Judah Halevi attributed to its ability to cleanse the body of black bile, a supposedly gloom - inducing, but entirely imaginary, effluvium.

But Hippocratic medicine also incorporated «scientific» theory — the idea that four «humors» (blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm) controlled the body's health.

Six hundred years later, Greek physician Galen maintained that good health sprang from a balance of four bodily humors: blood, which flows from the heart; yellow bile, leaching from the liver; black bile, disgorged by the spleen and stomach; and cold, wet phlegm coming from the brain.

He recommended treatment through modified diet, bloodletting, and medicines believed to have a cooling and drying effect, in an effort to restore balance to the «four humours»: black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm.

These bodily fluids or humors are yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm.

Freya is given the barest veil of a backstory while Ravenna just oozes ribbons of black bile (literally) for her own evil reasons.

Instead it swallows the multi-colored light, often showing up as a black bile that oozes from victim's bodies.

Friedman connects them further to the body by identifying the colors of the four rubber tubes with the four humors of Greek and medieval medicine — black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood.

Made up of a latticed metal screen variously woven and penetrated with soft rubber tubes in hues referencing the four humors — black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood — and metal spikes, Friedman's sculpture Two Person Operating System, situated in the center of the gallery, channels both threat and attraction.

Studying the interchange of the internal and the external, a Hippocratic healer paid careful attention to food, exercise, and the ways the waters and the climates acted on the four humors — blood, phlegm, and yellow and black biles, each associated with a particular temperament.

The term «melancholia» is derived from the Greek words melas, meaning black, and chole, meaning bile, and is a vestige of the ancient belief that a person's health and temperament are determined by the relative proportions of the four cardinal humors, or body fluids, which are blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile).