Word Meanings - LIENO-INTESTINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno- intestinal vein of the frog.

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• 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.
• LIENO-INTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno- intestinal vein of the frog.
• 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.
• INTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm , any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal.
• SPLEENWORT
  Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. (more info) Gr.
• INTESTINE
  1. Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton. 2. Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders,
• GASTROINTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric. (more info) Med.)
• UNSPLEENED
  Deprived of a spleen.
• SUBINTESTINAL
  Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine.
• ALIENOR
  One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach