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Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno- intestinal vein of the frog.

ts, at the extremities of the urinary tubules of the kidney. Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses of adenoid tissue connected with branches of the splenic artery.

The spleen.

t for measuring the variations in size of the internal organs of the body, as the kidney, spleen, etc.

think conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen. Milton.

hich 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.

ot.) (a) A palm tree which yields sago. (b) A species of Cycas (Cycas revoluta). -- Sago spleen (Med.), a morbid condition of the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago.

Pain over the region of the spleen.

Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic guffaw." G. Eliot. You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic Pope.

Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein. Splenic apoplexy or fever. (Med.) See Anthrax, n., 3.

Spleenish. [Obs.] Drayton.

Inflammation of the spleen.

bid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.

Hernia formed by the spleen.

A description of the spleen.

Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.

The branch of science which treats of the spleen.

to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen. Shak.

s are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See Peyer's gl…

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance present in small amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and…