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How to pronounce “spleen”
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Pronunciation guide for spleen
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of spleen with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers
about dissecting cadavers and poems about the spleen.
- Definition summary
- (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.
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How to pronounce spleen
The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers
about dissecting cadavers and poems about the spleen.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “spleen”
Meaning
- [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.
- (archaic, except in the set phrase "to vent one's spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall.
- (obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
- (obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
- A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
- [Verb]
- (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
- To annoy or irritate.
- (ambitransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
- To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
- To excise or remove.
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