choler
noun
[ ˈkɒlə ]
• (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, identified with bile and believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible temperament.
Origin:
late Middle English (also denoting diarrhoea): from Old French colere ‘bile, anger’, from Latin cholera ‘diarrhoea’ (from Greek kholera ), which in late Latin acquired the senses ‘bile or anger’, from Greek kholē ‘bile’.
