Spleen vs Pneumogastric - What's the difference?
spleen | pneumogastric |
(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
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach
(anatomy) vagus (attributive)
(anatomy) The pneumogastric nerve; one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.
As nouns the difference between spleen and pneumogastric
is that spleen is obsession, while pneumogastric is (anatomy) the pneumogastric nerve; one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.As an adjective pneumogastric is
(anatomy) of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.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 .