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nervo-bilious

nervo-bilious adjective: easily excitable and with energy and strength of mind and body.

Adjective

nervo-bilious (comparative more nervo-bilious, superlative most nervo-bilious)

  1. (obsolete) Easily 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

Forms of nervo-bilious

comparativemore nervo-bilious
superlativemost nervo-bilious

Questions about nervo-bilious

What does nervo-bilious mean?
Nervo-bilious means easily excitable and with energy and strength of mind and body.
What part of speech is nervo-bilious?
Nervo-bilious is an adjective.

Words near nervo-bilious in the dictionary

  1. nerving up
  2. nervings
  3. nervish
  4. nervited
  5. nervo-
  6. nervo-bilious
  7. nervomuscular
  8. nervon
  9. nervone
  10. nervonic
  11. nervonic acid

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