Word Meanings - SPLENALGIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pain over the region of the spleen.
Related words: (words related to SPLENALGIA)
- SPLEENY
1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy. - 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. - SPLEENLESS
Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. Chapman. - 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. - REGIONAL
Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional. - SPLEENWORT
Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. (more info) Gr. - REGION
1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract. - PHOTIC REGION
The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light. - UNSPLEENED
Deprived of a spleen. - APHOTIC REGION
A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate. - TRANSREGIONATE
Foreign. Holinshed.