Word Meanings - GASTROSPLENIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.
Related words: (words related to GASTROSPLENIC)
- 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.