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English
Adjective
nervo-bilious (comparative more nervo-bilious, superlative most nervo-bilious)
- (phrenology, obsolete) Easily excitable and with energy and strength of mind and body.
1876, E B Shuldham, Headaches: Their Causes and Treatment, second edition, London: E. Gould & Son, page 51:Patients to whom chamomilla is suitable are of a sensitive, irritable disposition, and do not bear pain with stoical indifference. They belong either to the purely nervous or the nervo-bilious temperament.