Spleen

Etymology
From esplen:, from  splen:, from  σπλήν:.

Noun

 * 1)  In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
 * 2)  A bad mood; spitefulness.

Synonyms

 * milt

Derived terms

 * spleenful
 * spleenless
 * spleenlike
 * spleeny


 * splenectomy
 * splenetic
 * splenic
 * vent one's spleen

Related terms

 * splenomegaly

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: طحال
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Bengali: প্লীহা
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: слезка
 * Cappadocian Greek:
 * Catalan: melsa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 脾脏
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: lieno
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:, fo:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: σπλην,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: liathán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Kapampangan:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Laz:
 * Lithuanian: blužnis
 * Macedonian: слезенка
 * Malayalam: പ്ലീഹ
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Pangasinan:
 * Persian: طحال
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: k'ayrapin
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ప్లీహము
 * Thai: (máam)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: splen
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: splen


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Portuguese: esplim

Etymology
From spleen:

Noun

 * 1) bad mood, melancholy
 * J'ai le spleen.

Synonyms

 * bourdon, cafard, dépression, ennui, hypocondrie, langueur, neurasthénie