< b>Icterus: Jaundice. At least one medical dictionary defines icterus as
the presence of jaundice seen in the sclera of the eye. This is incorrect. Icterus
is synonymous with jaundice. They are one and the same thing.
Curiously, both icterus and jaundice come from the Greek. Icterus is a Latinized
(-us) form of the Greek word "ikteros" and to the ancient Greeks signified both
"jaundice" and "a yellow bird." It was thought that jaundice could be cured if the
patient gazed at the bird. The disease would transmigrate from the jaundiced patient
to the hapless bird (JAMA 184: 615, 1963).
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