a. Gr. σπληνο-, combining form of σπλήν SPLEEN sb., employed in a number of pathological and anatomical terms, as splenocele (see quot.); splenography, splenology, splenorrhagy, splenotomy (Craig, 1849; cf. F. splénocèle, -graphie, etc.); spleno-lymphatic, -medullary, -myelogenic, etc.; spleno-typhoid, typhoid fever complicated with disorder of the spleen.
The number of such compounds has been greatly increased by recent medical writers.
1799. Hooper, Med. Dict., Splenocele, a rupture of the spleen.
1849. Craig (see above).
1879. Reynolds, Syst. Med., V. 221. In the ‘spleno-lymphatic’ form [of leucocythæmia] an initial splenic enlargement is associated with glandular swellings, and in the ‘spleno-myelogenic’ form, with changes in the marrow.
1883. Science, I. 66/2. This diminution is most marked from a hundred and fifty to two hundred days after the splenotomy.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 833. Spleno-typhoid occupies a somewhat different position. Ibid. (1897), IV. 591. Splenic or spleno-medullary leuchæmia.
