Gout vs Spleen - What's the difference?
gout | spleen |
(pathology, not countable) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
(usually, followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
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* 1981 , , Children of Men , ch. 20, page 137:
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(rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)
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(anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
A bad mood; spitefulness.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
* Alexander Pope
* Wordsworth
A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between gout and spleen
is that gout is taste, flavour while spleen is obsession,.gout
English
(wikipedia gout)Noun
(en noun)- I see thee still,
- And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
- [S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.
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- Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.
Synonyms
* gouty arthritis * urarthritis * crystalline arthritisDerived terms
* gouty * goutiness * pseudogoutReferences
spleen
English
(wikipedia spleen)Noun
(en noun)- In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
- A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
- Bodies changed to various forms by spleen .
- There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
- Thy silly thought enforces my spleen .