English Dictionary

spleen

/spliːn/

noun

(anatomy, immunology) 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.

The spleen is an organ located in the upper left side of the abdomen.

意味（1）

(anatomy, immunology) 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.

意味（2）

(archaic, except in the set phrase "to vent one's spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness.

In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.

意味（3）

(obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.

A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.

A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways. Brief as the lightning in the collied night; That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth

意味（4）

(obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.

Bodies changed to various forms by spleen.

意味（5）

A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

By virtue, thou enforcest laughter ; thy silly thought, my spleen