lienal

/ ˈlaɪənəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to the spleen

Word History and Origins

Origin of lienal¹

C19: from Latin lien spleen

Example Sentences

Further, the assumption of a pure lienal variety of leukæmia is totally unwarranted from hæmatological investigations.

From Project Gutenberg

It is of great importance to direct attention to these cases, which up to the present have been practically disregarded—for ignorance of their occurrence may easily give rise to gross errors concerning the nature and origin of the mononuclear cells, and to the manufacture of a lienal form of leukæmia.

From Project Gutenberg

Since, however, the acute leucocytoses, as we shall shew in the next section, are exclusively to be referred to the bone-marrow, the term lienal leucocytosis seems to us quite mistaken, for it must logically lead to a conception of the origin of the leucocytes, exactly opposed to their actual relationships.

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