spleen

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  1. noun A large, highly vascular lymphoid organ, lying in the human body to the left of the stomach below the diaphragm, serving to store blood, disintegrate old blood cells, filter foreign substances from the blood, and produce lymphocytes.
  2. noun A homologous organ or tissue in other vertebrates.
  3. noun Obsolete This organ conceived as the seat of emotions or passions.
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  • I had doubts about the concept of a Medical Home as a solution to the primary care crisis from the first time I read about it and you would have thought my spleen was fully vented in this verbose learned that the RUC would be making the payments rules my doubt titer went off the chart. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • In a set of magisterial recommendations, the judge would decide which spleen was the more palatable. —  ZDNet UK Highlights
  • In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory, the spleen is responsible for the proper functioning of the digestive system, ensuring that the food we eat is transformed into Qi - the vital substance of life.
  • He gave her a physical and thought her spleen was enlarged.
  • (E) Western blot analysis of CARMA1 expression in thymus, spleen, and lymph node lysates. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English splen, from Old French esplen, from Latin splēn, from Greek.

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  1. from Middle English splene, splen, from Old French esplen, esplein, esplain, esplien, esplene = Italian splene, from Latin splen, from Greek σπλήν = Latin lien (for orig. *splien) = Sanskrit plihan (for orig. *splihan), the spleen.
  2. from spleen, n.
 

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