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SPLENIUM

\splˈiːni͡əm], \splˈiːni‍əm], \s_p_l_ˈiː_n_iə_m]\

Definitions of SPLENIUM

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

The posterior border of the corpus callosum.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

[Latin] The posterior border of the corpus callosum (anat.).

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
By J.H. Kenneth

Compress- s. Corporis Callosi, see Corpus callosum- s. Cruciatum, Croix de Malte.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

[Greek] A bandage or compress.
[Greek] The rounded posterior end of the corpus callosum.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

A compress or bandage.
The posterior end of the callosum.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A plant used by the ancients in affections of the spleen.
A bandage or compress.
Syn.: bulb of the fornix. An enlargement at the posterior extremity of the corpus callosum, just before it joins the fornix. [Gr.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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