spleen
IPA: spɫˈin
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.
- (archaic, except in the set phrase "to vent one's spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness.
- (obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
- (obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
- A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
- To annoy or irritate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
- To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
- To excise or remove.
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Examples of "spleen" in Sentences
- The feelings manifested by Michal were only an ebullition of spleen from a proud and passionate woman.
- The liver is long and simple; the spleen is short and round: as is the case in both respects with the saurians.
- The full review is only available online to subscribers, but you can get a sense of his level of spleen from the opening paragraphs.
- When the spleen is large, your physician may prescribe a spleen guard to be worn during gym or during certain activities to protect the spleen from injury.
- The spleen is anatomically well adapted for use in these experiments, and the replantation of this organ can be taken as characteristic of this kind of operation.
- You know it's a good post when a humming birds spleen is used as a frame of reference though I do believe the aforementioned bases/rings are way heavier than a gnats ass!
- After we had fed, we drew ourselves back to our boats upon the river, and there came to us all the lords of the country, with all such kind of victual as the place yielded, and with their delicate wine of pinas, and with abundance of hens and other provisions, and of those stones which we call spleen-stones.
- As I approached the forbidding edifice that is Tony Conigliaro Consolidated Elementary School, my heart sank from its perch just above the ruffled v-neck of my blouse to a point slightly below my spleen, which is a vascular, ductless organ whose principal functions are the storage of blood and production of lymphocytes.
- As I approached the forbidding edifice that is Tony Conigliaro Consolidated Elementary School, my heart sank from its perch just above the ruffled v-neck of my blouse to a point slightly below my spleen, which is a vascular, ductless organ whose principal functions are the storage of blood and production of lymphocytes.
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