Word Meanings - SPLENIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• SPLEENY
  1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• SPLENICAL
  Splenic.
• FEVERISH
  1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
• 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.
• FEVERET
  A slight fever. Ayliffe.
• SPLEENLESS
  Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. Chapman.
• LIENAL
  Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.
• 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
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• FEVEROUS
  1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever;
• APOPLEXY
  Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain. Note: The term is now usually limited to cerebral apoplexy, or loss of consciousness due to effusion of blood or other
• 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.
• FEVERWORT
  See FEVER
• SPLENIC
  Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein. Splenic apoplexy or fever. See Anthrax, n., 3.
• SPLEENED
  1. Deprived of the spleen. 2. Angered; annoyed. R. North.
• ANTHRAX VACCINE
  A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.
• SPLEENWORT
  Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. (more info) Gr.
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• GLOSSANTHRAX
  A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
• XYLANTHRAX
  Wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal.
• BUCK FEVER
  Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.
• ENFEVER
  To excite fever in. A. Seward.
• CHAGRES FEVER
  A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.
• UNSPLEENED
  Deprived of a spleen.