cholestasis

Japanese: cholestasis
cholestasis

In the blood of a normal person, serum bilirubin is 1 mg/dL or less, and when serum bilirubin is around 3 mg/dL or more, jaundice can be recognized. In general, jaundice is divided into cases where there is simply an increase in bilirubin and cases where there is also an increase in bile components, such as bile acids. The former is called hyperbilirubinemia, and the latter is called cholestasis.
[History of jaundice research]
Jaundice was already described by Hippocrates, and the terms jaundice and yellow gall bladder have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for a long time.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "cholestasis" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…正常者の血液では血清ビリルビンは1mg/dl以下であり,血清ビリルビンが3mg/dl前後以上の場合に黄疸として認識できる。一般に黄疸は単にビリルビンの増加する場合と,同時に胆汁成分,たとえば胆汁酸の増加を伴う場合とに分けられるが,前者は高ビリルビン血症hyperbilirubinemia,後者は胆汁鬱滞(うつたい)cholestasisと呼ばれている。
[黄疸の研究史]
 黄疸はすでにヒッポクラテスによって記載されており,東洋医学においても古くから黄疸あるいは黄胆という言葉が用いられてきた。…

※「cholestasis」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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