nervo-bilious
adj1
Human sciences, Medicine, Phrenology, Psychology, Sciences Obsolete Easily excitable and with energy and strength of mind and body.
- 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.1876, E[dward] B[arton] Shuldham, Headaches: Their Causes and Treatment, second edition, London: E. Gould & Son, page 51: