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Word Meanings - GASTROSPLENIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

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  • SPLEENY
    1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
  • STOMACHAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
  • STOMACH
    1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton. 2. To bear
  • STOMACHY
    Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
  • 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.
  • STOMACHER
    1. One who stomachs.
  • STOMACHFUL
    Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
  • SPLEENLESS
    Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. Chapman.
  • STOMACHING
    Resentment.
  • STOMACHOUS
    Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
  • STOMACHIC
    A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • LIGAMENT
    1. Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington. A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or
  • SPLEENWORT
    Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. (more info) Gr.
  • GASTROSPLENIC
    Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.
  • STOMACHIC; STOMACHICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels. 2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
  • LIGAMENTAL; LIGAMENTOUS
    Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.
  • HIGH-STOMACHED
    Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
  • UNSPLEENED
    Deprived of a spleen.
  • POUPART'S LIGAMENT
    A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.

 

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