combining form of the L. bīlis bile, used in various compounds and derivatives, esp. in the names of bile-pigments; as bili-cyanin, -rubin, -verdin, etc. Hence also Biliation, the production or secretion of bile. Syd. Soc. Lex., 1880. Biliferous a., producing bile. † Bilification, the action or process of making bile. † Bilify, v. to form bile; Bilifying ppl. a. bile-forming.
1880. J. W. Legg, Bile, 49. Bilicyanin they always find in human gall-stones.
1878. Gamgee, trans. Hermanns Phys. (ed. 2), 138. Yellow bile becomes green through the oxidation of bilirubin to biliverdin.
18369. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., II. 483/2. In many insects the biliferous organs consist of fluid sacs.
1692. Sir T. Blount, Ess., 113. The nature of sanguification, Bilification, Separation of Urine.
1657. Tomlinson, Renous Disp., 526. So much Vinegar must be added as will correct that bilefying faculty.