BILIOUSNESS
A symptom-picture resulting from a short-term disordered liver,
with constipation, frontal headache, spots in front of the eyes, poor appetite, and nausea
or vomiting. The usual causes are heavy alcohol consumption, poor ventilation when
working with solvents, heavy binging with fatty foods, or moderate consumption of
rancid fats. The term is genially archaic in medicine; people who are bilious are seldom
genial, however.