[
US
/ˈspɫin/
]
[ UK /splˈiːn/ ]
[ UK /splˈiːn/ ]
NOUN
- a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
- a feeling of resentful anger
How To Use spleen In A Sentence
- It can occur anywhere but most often hits the neck, liver or spleen. The Sun
- It can occur anywhere but most often hits the neck, liver or spleen. The Sun
- In private, feel free to vent your spleen, cry, denounce the other party as a loathsome cad.
- It is such a mouth as we can imagine some remorseless inquisitor to have had -- that is, not an inquisitor filled with holy zeal for what he mistakenly thought the cause of Christ demanded, but a spleeny, envious, rancorous shaveling, who tortured men from hatred of their superiority to him, and sheer love of inflicting pain. Andersonville — Volume 1
- Miss Margland, extremely piqued, vented her spleen in oblique sarcasms, and sought to heal her offended pride by appeals for justice to her sagacity and foresight in the whole business. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
- From the spleen, water is also sent down to the kidney and excreted from the urinary bladder.
- Last night, he gave full vent to his spleen.
- All that has been accomplished tonight is that one party have vented their spleen by trying to have a crack at another.
- Then she showed them a diagram of my spleen. The Sun
- From the vein that passes through the liver two branches separate off, of which one terminates in the diaphragm or so-called midriff, and the other runs up again through the armpit into the right arm and unites with the other veins at the inside of the bend of the arm; and it is in consequence of this local connexion that, when the surgeon opens this vein in the forearm, the patient is relieved of certain pains in the liver; and from the left-hand side of it there extends a short but thick vein to the spleen and the little veins branching off it disappear in that organ. The History of Animals