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.