SPLEEN

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 43
A spongy viscus, of an oval form, the use of which is unknown; placed in the human subject in the left hypochondrium, between the eleventh and twelfth false ribs. Spleen is also used for a species' of hypochondriasis to which the English are said to be particularly open. [s. 1153]
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