One of the spellingbee words. Patients in OPD amused us by saying "yellow jaundice".
Actually there can be bile retention with bluish tint. I saw a dany case in a Chinese
restaurant in 1947. He had "doigts en baguettes de tambour", and was bluish green, not
yellow. I think it was a combination of jaundice and methemoglobinemia.
Incidentally, the restaurant across the street was named Hung Far Low. Honest.
But what puzzles me is I can't see any association of "icteric" with the color yellow.
Jaundice is easy, French "jaune" is yellow. But what color clue resides in "icteric"