How do you use Spleen in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like lien, plus the exact meaning.
Spleen meaning
- In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
- A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall.
- A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
Synonyms of Spleen
Spleen vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Spleen
- The main meaning on this page is: In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes. | A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall. | A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
- Useful related words include: lien, lymphatic tissue, lymphoid tissue, irascibility.
- Possible Dutch translations are: milt.
- In the example corpus, spleen often appears in combinations such as: the spleen, spleen and, and spleen.
Context around Spleen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 12 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spleen
- In this selection, "spleen" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, liver, ruptured, tiny and injuries stand out and add context to how "spleen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include liver and spleen and a damaged spleen and dislocated. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spleen" sits close to words such as abner, acorns and acquit, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spleen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They called him a has-spleen. (6 words)
She is suffering from cancer of the pancreas, liver and spleen. (11 words)
They’d done a CT scan before calling me, showing a ruptured spleen. (13 words)
Surfaces Visceral surface of the spleen The diaphragmatic surface of the spleen (or phrenic surface) is convex, smooth, and is directed upward, backward, and to the left, except at its upper end, where it is directed slightly to the middle. (40 words)
Souls of those whom I have loved, souls of those whom I have sung, strengthen me, sustain me, keep me from the vanities of the world and its contaminating fumes,” Baudelaire, Paris Spleen. (33 words)
At a football match where supporters vent their spleen at umpires and players it may be hard to prove offence during the mayhem of the last quarter in a tight game. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, women in bad humor were said to be afflicted by the spleen, or the vapours of the spleen.
Many mammals have tiny spleen-like structures known as haemal nodes throughout the body that are presumed to have the same function as the spleen.
Surfaces Visceral surface of the spleen The diaphragmatic surface of the spleen (or phrenic surface) is convex, smooth, and is directed upward, backward, and to the left, except at its upper end, where it is directed slightly to the middle.
At a football match where supporters vent their spleen at umpires and players it may be hard to prove offence during the mayhem of the last quarter in a tight game.
Evaluate patients who report left upper abdominal or shoulder pain for an enlarged spleen or splenic rupture.
He lost both legs, an eye and his spleen when the tube train he was travelling in was attacked near Edgware Road.
He woke up in hospital a few days later after having had his spleen and part of his colon removed.
She had life-threatening injuries to her brain, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and intestines.
The teenager was airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital for treatment of nine broken vertebrae plus a ruptured spleen, a collapsed lung, a concussion, and a broken hand and dislocated finger.
According to TCM, your cheeks are linked to your stomach, spleen and respiratory system.
She is suffering from cancer of the pancreas, liver and spleen.
The 10-year-old boy suffered serious head, neck and spleen injuries and an open wound to his left leg.
The court heard his passenger Mr Smith-Green also suffered serious injuries including a damaged spleen and dislocated hip.
The first symptom he showed was a protruding belly button, which was due to a build-up of sugars in his liver and spleen.
They’d done a CT scan before calling me, showing a ruptured spleen.
Peter Forsberg played another seven years of effective hockey after his spleen was removed.
Souls of those whom I have loved, souls of those whom I have sung, strengthen me, sustain me, keep me from the vanities of the world and its contaminating fumes,” Baudelaire, Paris Spleen.
The Jimmies were without senior starting running back Tanner Mathern who suffered a lacerated spleen in Wednesday's practice.
They called him a has-spleen.
White blood cells become over-activated, causing damage to tissues such as the liver, spleen and bone marrow.
Common combinations with spleen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the spleen 17×
- spleen and 14×
- and spleen 14×
- his spleen 7×
- spleen is 5×
- spleen or 4×
- ruptured spleen 3×
- liver spleen 2×
- stomach spleen 2×
- spleen was 2×