English Dictionary

spleen

IPA（発音記号）

/spliːn/

名詞

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(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.

日本語の意味

脾臓：脊椎動物（人間を含む）に存在する器官で、胃の近くの左上腹部に位置します。主な機能は、古くなった赤血球の分解、血流中の異物の除去、血液の貯蔵、そしてリンパ球の生成などです。

After the car accident, doctors were worried that his spleen had ruptured, so they rushed him into surgery.

自動車事故の後、医師たちは彼の脾臓が破裂したのではないかと心配し、急いで手術に連れて行った。

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. 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

spleens （ plural ）