Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not affected by jaundice: Describes a medical condition, symptom, or patient that does not involve or show signs of jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes).
   • Without jaundice: A direct description of the absence of the characteristic yellow discoloration caused by excess bilirubin in the blood.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The patient presented with anicteric hepatitis, showing liver inflammation but no yellowing of the skin.
  • An anicteric form of the disease is often less severe and easier to overlook.
  • The blood tests confirmed the illness was anicteric.

Advanced Usage

• Medical Terminology: The word is almost exclusively used in medical and clinical contexts to describe conditions, laboratory findings (e.g., serum), or patient states. It is a precise, technical term.
• Contrast with "Icteric": It is the direct antonym of "icteric," which means affected by or relating to jaundice. A diagnosis may describe a patient as either or icteric.

Variants and Related Words

• Icteric (adj): Affected by jaundice; showing yellowing.
  • The icteric patient required immediate treatment.
• Jaundice (n): The medical condition characterized by yellowing of the skin and eyes.
• Anicteric Hepatitis (n phrase): A specific type of liver inflammation that occurs without the typical symptom of jaundice.

Synonyms

• Non-jaundiced: A more plain-language synonym, though less common in formal medical writing.
• Without jaundice: A descriptive phrase rather than a single-word synonym.

Antonyms

• Icteric: Jaundiced; showing signs of jaundice.
• Jaundiced: Affected by jaundice. (Note: "Jaundiced" can also have a figurative meaning of being cynical or prejudiced, which does not apply to "anicteric").

Adjective

1. not affected by jaundice
2. without jaundice
   • anicteric hepatitis