Spleen vs Splenectomized - What's the difference?
spleen | splenectomized |
(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
Having the spleen removed.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 4, author=Natalie Angier, title=Finally, the Spleen Gets Some Respect, work=New York Times
, passage=The splenectomized men, the researchers found, were twice as likely to die of cardiovascular disease as were the veterans in the control group. }}
(splenectomize)
As a noun spleen
is obsession,.As an adjective splenectomized is
having the spleen removed.As a verb splenectomized is
(splenectomize).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 .
Synonyms
* miltDerived terms
* spleenful * spleenless * spleenlike * spleeny * splenectomy * splenetic * splenic * vent one's spleensplenectomized
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