different between icterus vs kernicterus

English

Etymology

From the Latin icterus, from the Ancient Greek ??????? (íkteros, “jaundice”).

Noun

icterus (uncountable)

1. (medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice.
2. A yellowish appearance in plants.

Derived terms

• icteric

Translations

Anagrams

• crustie, curiets, curites, curse it

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ??????? (íkteros, “jaundice”, “a bird of a yellowish-green colour, perhaps the golden oriole”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly related to ????? (íktis, “weasel”), ??????? (íktînos), or of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ik.te.rus/, [??kt????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ik.te.rus/, [?ikt???us]

Noun

icterus m (genitive icter?); second declension

1. a yellow bird, otherwise unknown, the sight of which was said to cure jaundice; perhaps loriot, golden oriole

Usage notes

• The Latin word that translates the English words jaundice and icterus is aur?g?.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• icteri?s
• ictericus

Descendants

• English: icterus
• German: Ikterus

References

• ict?rus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ict?rus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 765/1

English

Alternative forms

• Kernikterus, kernikterus (both dated)

Etymology

An adaptation of the German Kernikterus (from Kern (“nucleus”) +? Ikterus (“jaundice”); first attested in 1903), decapitalised and respelt after icterus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???n?kt???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??n?kt???s/

Noun

kernicterus (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).

Synonyms

• (infant brain damage caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect free bilirubin): bilirubinencephalopathy (comparatively far rarer)

Derived terms

• kernicteric

Translations

Further reading

• kernicterus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia