Crossword clues for spleen
spleen
- Nonessential internal organ
- Non-essential organ
- Lymphocyte producer
- It may be vented in anger
- Ductless organ
- Blood-filtering organ
- Vent one's ___ (be furious)
- Vascular organ
- Suppressed anger
- Spitefulness, ill-humour
- Soft organ near the stomach
- Quick temper — body organ
- Organic filter
- Organ that's vented
- Organ that filters blood, and for that I will be forever grateful to it
- Organ supposedly controlling temper
- Organ on the left side of the body
- Organ associated with ill temper
- Nonessential organ
- It might be vented
- It may be vented
- Internal organ — irascibility
- Inessential internal organ
- Certain internal organ
- Bodily blood filter
- Bitterness — organ of the body
- Bitterness — body organ
- Anatomical source of ill humor?
- "Vented" organ
- Bad temper
- Anger
- Petulance
- Ire
- Produces cells involved in immune responses
- A feeling of resentful anger
- A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm
- Malice
- Ill humor
- Ill will
- Peevish temper
- Ill temper
- Fit of anger
- Quick temper - spite
- Quick temper - body organ
- Case for pedal stops considered for organ
- Organ; bad temper
- Organ spotted outside public library
- Abdominal organ — bad temper
- Bitterness - organ of the body
- Bad temper; organ
- Bad temper noticed around place
- Organ near the stomach
- Iron-recycling organ
- Diaphragm neighbor
- Stomach neighbor
- Peevish anger
- Part of the lymphatic system
- Organ next to the stomach
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spleen \Spleen\, n. [L. splen, Gr. ???? the milt or spleen, affection of the spleen; cf. L. lien, plihan, pl[=i]han.]
(Anat.) A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
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Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
--Pope. A fit of anger; choler.
--Shak.-
A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim. [Obs. or R.]
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
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Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
Bodies changed to various forms by spleen.
--Pope.There is a luxury in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
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A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. [Obs.]
Thy silly thought enforces my spleen.
--Shak.
Spleen \Spleen\, v. t.
To dislke. [Obs.]
--Bp. Hacket.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French esplen, from Latin splen, from Greek splen "the milt, spleen," from PIE *spelgh- "spleen, milt" (cognates: Sanskrit plihan-, Avestan sperezan, Armenian p'aicaln, Latin lien, Old Church Slavonic slezena, Lithuanian blužnis, Old Prussian blusne, Old Irish selg "spleen").\n
\nRegarded in medieval physiology as the seat of morose feelings and bad temper. Hence figurative sense of "violent ill-temper" (1580s, implied in spleenful); and thence spleenless "free from anger, ill-humor, malice, or spite" (1610s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy immunology English) 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. 2 (context archaic except in the set phrase ''"to vent one's spleen"'' English) A bad mood; spitefulness. 3 (context obsolete rare English) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim. 4 (context obsolete English) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections. 5 A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To dislike.
WordNet
n. a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses [syn: lien]
a feeling of resentful anger [syn: irascibility, short temper, quick temper]
Wikipedia
The spleen (from Greek —splḗn) is an organ found in virtually all vertebrates. Similar in structure to a large lymph node, it acts primarily as a blood filter.
The spleen plays important roles in regard to red blood cells (also referred to as erythrocytes) and the immune system. It removes old red blood cells and holds a reserve of blood, which can be valuable in case of hemorrhagic shock, and also recycles iron. As a part of the mononuclear phagocyte system, it metabolizes hemoglobin removed from senescent erythrocytes. The globin portion of hemoglobin is degraded to its constitutive amino acids, and the heme portion is metabolized to bilirubin, which is removed in the liver.
The spleen synthesizes antibodies in its white pulp and removes antibody-coated bacteria and antibody-coated blood cells by way of blood and lymph node circulation. A study published in 2009 using mice found that the red pulp of the spleen forms a reservoir that contains over half of the body's monocytes. These monocytes, upon moving to injured tissue (such as the heart after myocardial infarction), turn into dendritic cells and macrophages while promoting tissue healing. The spleen is a center of activity of the mononuclear phagocyte system and can be considered analogous to a large lymph node, as its absence causes a predisposition to certain infections.
In humans, the spleen is brownish in color and is located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.
The Spleen is one of the zàng organs stipulated by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is a functionally defined entity and not equivalent to the anatomical organ of the same name.
The spleen is an organ in the human body.
Spleen may also refer to:
- Spleen, poem by Baudelaire
- Spleen (Chinese medicine), an element of body function
- A French rapper/musician who sometimes performs with CocoRosie
- A character in Mystery Men
- "Spleen", a song by Staind from Dysfunction
Usage examples of "spleen".
After some tugging, he extracted a curved grey ancipital horn, which had punctured the spleen and sunk deep into the body.
Lieutaud is quoted as describing a postmortem examination of an adult who had died of hydropsy, in whom the liver and spleen were entirely missing.
If, however, from these cases we deduct those suffering with leukocythemia and lardaceous spleen, in which the operation should not be performed, the mortality in the remaining 85 cases is reduced to 33 per cent.
Invading the leukocyte reservoirs, enemy cells permeated rigid walls of bone, forced their way inside the fragile spleen, spilled over and swam freely through the wide lymphatic passages.
A second possibility arises from the fact that the thymus is composed of lymphoid tissue, very like that of the spleen, the tonsils, and the lymph nodes.
The structure of the spleen and that of the mesenteric glands are similar, although the former is provided with a scanty supply of lymphatic vessels, and the chyle does not pass through it, as through the mesenteric glands.
Hippocrates advises a moxa of mushrooms applied over the spleen for melting or dissolving it.
The injuries were listed more specifically on the emergency room report, and Adam had to reach back into his own college physiology class to remember what all the words meant--open fracture of the left clavicle, fracture of the right olecranon process, anterior dislocation of right shoulder, fracture of ribs eight through ten left side, lacerated liver and spleen, ruptured bladder, crushed metacarpals on right hand, broken nose, laceration of scalp, face, and neck, crushed right ankle.
The stomach, spleen, omentum, and transverse colon were found lying in the left pleura.
Margland, extremely piqued, vented her spleen in oblique sarcasms, and sought to heal her offended pride by appeals for justice to her sagacity and foresight in the whole business.
Then when he clicked three times on empty cylinders Roscoe caught a hapless duck by the throat and tried to pistolwhip it and punch its lights out and drag it to shore where he could knee-drop it, rupturing its spleen.
You provide me samples of blood, spleen, liver, kidney, and testes, although all have been compromised from funeral home infusation.
CHAPTER XXIII I Purchase a Handsome Carriage, and Proceed to Parma With the Old Captain and the Young Frenchwoman--I Pay a Visit to Javotte, and Present Her With a Beautiful Pair of Gold Bracelets--My Perplexities Respecting My Lovely Travelling Companion--A Monologue--Conversation with the Captain--Tete-a-Tete with Henriette The conversation was animated, and the young female officer was entertaining everybody, even Madame Querini, although she hardly took the trouble of concealing her spleen.
VII Now the meadows with crocus besprent, And the asphodel woodsides she left, And the lake-slopes, the ravishing scent Of narcissus, dark-sweet, for the cleft That tutors the torrent-brook, Delaying its forceful spleen With many a wind and crook Through rock to the broad ravine.
Organs and blood vessels were warped and displaced, the lungs mismatched and the spleen elongated like a fish.