SPLENIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does splenic mean? 

• SPLENIC (adjective)
  The adjective SPLENIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the spleen

  Familiarity information: SPLENIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLENIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the spleen

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

lienal; splenetic; splenic

Pertainym:

spleen (a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses)

Derivation:

spleen (a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses)

 Context examples 

A staging system for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia; it is based upon the presence or absence of anemia and/or thrombocytopenia, and involvement of lymphoid tissues, including splenic lymphoid tissue.

(Binet Staging System, NCI Thesaurus)

Neoplasms of the hematopoietic system, including hematopoietic cell neoplasms (e.g. leukemias, lymphomas) and non-hematopoietic cell neoplasms that can affect the hematopoietic system (e.g. lymph node and splenic sarcomas). —2003

(Hematopoietic and Lymphoid System Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes C-X-C chemokine receptor type 6 protein, is involved in interactions between dendritic cells and T cells and in regulating T-cell migration in splenic red pulp.

(CXCR6 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel running parallel to the inferior pancreatico-duodenal artery that drains blood from the pancreas and duodenum into the splenic vein.

(Inferior Pancreatico-Duodenal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

They can only reenter the bloodstream if they’re able to pass through a tiny splenic structure called the interendothelial slit.

(How the spleen keeps blood healthy, NIH)

A translocation of this gene and the IGH gene locus may be associated with splenic marginal zone B-cell lymphoma.

(CCND3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A primary nodal B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma which morphologically resembles lymph nodes involved by marginal zone lymphomas of extranodal or splenic types, but without evidence of extranodal or splenic disease.

(Nodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

A vein that drains blood from the pancreas into the splenic and superior mesenteric veins.

(Pancreatic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

It has three major branches, left gastric artery, common hepatic artery, and splenic artery.

(Celiac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Splenic pulp seen grossly as a reddish brown substance, due to its abundance of red blood cells, consisting of splenic sinuses and the tissue intervening between them (splenic cords).

(Murine Red Pulp, NCI Thesaurus)