splenic

[ splee-nik, splen-ik ]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, connected with, or affecting the spleen:

   splenic nerves.

splenic

/ ˈsplɛnɪk; ˈspliː- /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or in the spleen
2. having a disease or disorder of the spleen

Other Words From

• post·splenic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of splenic¹

1610–20; < Latin splēnicus < Greek splēnikós. See splen-, -ic

Example Sentences

Pasteur began the examination of splenic fever by securing some of the blood from an animal dying from it.

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Pasteur hastened to apply his discovery of the attenuation of the virus of chicken cholera to the virus of splenic fever.

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In spite of the splenic tumour we have to deal then with a pure lymphatic leukæmia.

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It results from dysenteric perforation of the bowel, from rupture of a splenic abscess, or from rupture of the spleen itself.

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Koch was not the discoverer of the parasite of splenic fever.

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