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