lienculus

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English

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Etymology

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Diminutive of Latin lien (spleen).

Noun

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lienculus (plural lienculi)

  1. (anatomy) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighbourhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.
    Synonym: splenculus

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lienculus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)