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Spleen vs Pneumogastric - What's the difference?

spleen | pneumogastric |

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)
  • (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
  • In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
  • (obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
  • (obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Bodies changed to various forms by spleen .
  • * Wordsworth
  • There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
  • A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thy silly thought enforces my spleen .

    Synonyms

    * milt

    Derived terms

    * spleenful * spleenless * spleenlike * spleeny * splenectomy * splenetic * splenic * vent one's spleen

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To dislike.
  • (Bishop Hacket)
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    pneumogastric

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach
  • (anatomy) vagus (attributive)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.