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Word Meanings - LIENO-INTESTINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • SPLEENY
    1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
  • SPLEENFUL
    Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson.
  • SPLEENLESS
    Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. Chapman.
  • LIENO-INTESTINAL
    Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno- intestinal vein of the frog.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • SPLEENISH
    Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. -- Spleen"ish*ly, adv. -- Spleen"ish*ness, n.
  • SPLEEN
    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. 2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
  • SPLEENED
    1. Deprived of the spleen. 2. Angered; annoyed. R. North.
  • INTESTINAL
    Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm , any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal.
  • SPLEENWORT
    Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. (more info) Gr.
  • INTESTINE
    1. Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton. 2. Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders,
  • GASTROINTESTINAL
    Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric. (more info) Med.)
  • UNSPLEENED
    Deprived of a spleen.
  • SUBINTESTINAL
    Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine.
  • ALIENOR
    One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.
  • APPERTAIN
    To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach

 

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