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Word Meanings - SPLENOGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A description of the spleen.

Related words: (words related to SPLENOGRAPHY)

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • DESCRIPTION
    1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions
  • SPLEENWORT
    Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. (more info) Gr.
  • UNSPLEENED
    Deprived of a spleen.

 

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