Spleened

Assollant, having observed that spleened animals never died of hemmorrhage, and that ligatures applied to the divided splenic vessels constantly caused abscesses in the omentum, and death, adopted a peculiar mode of extirpation, which consisted in exposing the organ by a sufficient incision, cutting across its vessels, removing itself, and, without applying a ligature to any of those vessels, proceeding to return the protruded viscera, and to unite the external wound by some points of suture.

While physiology cannot sanction these grave charges against the spleen, it has of late, probably exaggerated its merits, since it has been ascertained, as already mentioned, that spleened animals not only survive its extirpation, but thrive very well without it.

Prevention of blood parasites in seven spleened dogs.

I was annoyed by this insinuation— my boyish pride took fire at once; and although I knew this proposition to be the result of the present splenetic mood, yet feeling a little spleened myself, I determined to see him through on his own terms, and merely said, "Very well, sir—as you choose."

Take me at the best, you shall not find a thing more spleened and choleric.

The reader whose temper is spleened with the vices and follies now in fashion, may gratify his humor with the satires he will here find

Keep an even keel; the men be spleened and the younger ones be afraid but they'll follow yer lead.

Combining, with the plain and spleened shaft and the cutters, the screw-threaded sleeves, for the purpose of adjusting said cutters, substantially as described.