Definition of Cholestatic

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or producing cholestasis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cholestatic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Cholestatic

1. Tending to diminish or stop the flow of bile. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cholestatic

cholerrhagic
cholers
cholescintigraphy
cholestadienes
cholestadienols
cholestane
cholestanes
cholestanetriol 26-monooxygenase
cholestanone
cholestanones
cholestases
cholestasia
cholestasis
cholestatic (current term)
cholestatic hepatitis
cholesteatoma
cholesteatomas
cholesteatomata
cholesteatomatous
cholestenes
cholestenone
cholestenone 5 beta-reductase
cholestenones
cholesteraemia
cholesteric
cholesterics
cholesteride

Literary usage of Cholestatic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anabolic Steroid Abuse by Geraline C. Lin (1996)
"1950), led to the association of cholestatic jaundice with 17-alkylated androgen administration; subsequent cases were reported primarily for patients ..."

2. Digestive Diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact edited by James E. Everhart (1995)
"... a chronic, progressive, cholestatic liver disease.259 Approximately 70 percent of all patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis can be shown to have ..."

3. Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, Rtecs: A Comprehensive Guide edited by Doris V. Sweet (1993)
"... cholestatic 12 Jaundice, other or unclassified 14 Liver function tests impaired 15 Change in gall bladder structure or function 30 Other changes 50 ..."

4. Diseases of the stomach and intestines: A Manual of Clinical Therapeutics by Dujardin-Beaumetz (1886)
"cholestatic constipation, due to absence of biliary secretion. 4. Gastric constipation, which accompanies affections of the stomach; 5. ..."

5. Alcohol and the Brain (1993)
"... neuromuscular weakness, and motor incoordination in individuals with cholestatic liver disease (characterized by diminished bile flow) (Sokol et al. ..."

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