variant of CHOLE-, Gr. χολή bile, used bef. a vowel: as in Cholacrol, an oily neutral body produced by the action of nitric acid upon bile. Cholæmia (also cholehæmia), bile in the blood, as in jaundice; hence Cholæmic a. Cholalic acid (CHOL- + AL(KALI) + -IC], the non-azolized acid obtained by the action of alkalis on the acids of bile: see CHOLIC. Cholamide, an amide of cholic acid C24 H41 NO4, obtained in silky, hygroscopic crystals. Cholate, a salt of cholic acid.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 80. The presence of the essential constituents of the bile in the blood constitutes the morbid condition called cholaemia.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 555. The cholæmic attack has so to speak a psychical character.
1880. J. W. Legg, Bile, 21. Cholalic acid is formed by the decomposition of the bile acids by acids, alkalies, or fermentation.
1878. Kingzett, Anim. Chem., 89. Cholic acid is said to yield cholamide.
1845–6. G. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem. (1846), I. 49. Most of the cholates are soluble, and possess a sweetish taste.
