- acholuric jaundice
- jaundice without choluria or bilirubinuria; seen in hemolytic disease and other forms of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia as the unconjugated bilirubin is not excreted by the kidneys.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
acholuric jaundice
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