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Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever..

Splenitive :: Splenitis (n.) Inflammation of the spleen.

Spleeny :: Spleeny (a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.

Splenoid :: Splenography (n.) A description of the spleen.

Gastrosplenic :: Gastrosplenic (n.) Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament..

Unspleened :: Unspleened (a.) Deprived of a spleen.

Spleened :: Spleened (a.) Deprived of the spleen.

Lardacein :: Lardacein (n.) A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc..

Leucin :: Leucin (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid..

Adiantum :: Adiantum (n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort..

Spleen :: Spleen (n.) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

Leucocythemia :: Leucocythemia (n.) A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia..

Splenetic :: Splenetic (a.) Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.

Tyrosin :: Tyrosin (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance present in small amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative..

Spleen :: Spleen (n.) A fit of anger; choler.

Splenotomy :: Splenotomy (n.) Dissection or anatomy of the spleen.

Milt :: Milt (n.) The spleen.

Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..

Splenocele :: Splenization (n.) A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen..

Lienculus :: Lienculus (n.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.

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