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spleen spleen

Spelling: [spleen]

IPA: /splin/

Spleen is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in spleen (eelnps).

Definitions for spleen

noun

1. a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
2. Obsolete. this organ conceived of as the seat of spirit and courage or of such emotions as mirth, ill humor, melancholy, etc.
3. ill humor, peevish temper, or spite.
4. Archaic. melancholy.
5. Obsolete. caprice.

Origin of spleen

1250-1300; Middle English Latin splēn Greek splḗn; akin to Sanskrit plīhan, Latin liēn spleen

Examples for spleen

The internal injuries cost him his spleen and part of his pancreas, but he could skate without those.

Internal organs like the spleen swell up and become as hard as sausages.

As you will; let us go indoors by all means, for this moon gives me the spleen.

Not that Cheney, even at his frailest, ever failed to vent his spleen with impressive vigor.

On April 19, 1888, the spleen was removed, the wound healed by first intention.

The shot damaged his liver, lungs, pancreas and spleen and has left him paralyzed from the waist down.

As with pretty much everything the former governor does, this is all about Venting the spleen of Sarah.

Which speaks of an intemperance in the splenetic parenchyma; that is to say, the spleen.

And there's Saunders, who talks about nothing but his spleen.

The most recent work on extirpation of the spleen for tumours is from Hartmann and Vasquez.