Etymology

splenization

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Today it means: A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen. Full definition →

Ancient Greek σπλήν
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσπλήν“spleen”
  2. English todaysplenization

From Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -ization.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσπλήν all →

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