The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκλείσις“closure”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσπλήν“spleen”
- English todaysplenocleisis
Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + Ancient Greek κλείσις (kleísis, “closure”). By surface analysis, spleno- + -cleisis.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσπλήν all →
spleensplenectomysplenalgiasplenizationspleno-splenoidsplenotoxin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.