Spleen vs Lymph - What's the difference?
spleen | lymph |
(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
(obsolete, poetical) Pure water.
(physiology, immunology) A colourless, watery, bodily fluid carried by the lymphatic system, that consists mainly of white blood cells.
Discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 268:
As nouns the difference between spleen and lymph
is that spleen is 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 while lymph is pure water.As a verb spleen
is to dislike.spleen
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(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 .
Synonyms
* miltDerived terms
* spleenful * spleenless * spleenlike * spleeny * splenectomy * splenetic * splenic * vent one's spleenlymph
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Alternative forms
* lymphe (rare or archaic)Noun
(-)- She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph .