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Spleen vs. Milt — What's the Difference?

Spleen vs. Milt — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Spleen and Milt

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Spleen

The spleen is an organ found in all vertebrates. Similar in structure to a large lymph node, it acts primarily as a blood filter.

Milt

Milt is the seminal fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals which reproduce by spraying this fluid, which contains the sperm, onto roe (fish eggs). It can also refer to the sperm sacs or testes that contain the semen.

Spleen

A large, highly vascular lymphoid organ, located in the human body to the left of the stomach below the diaphragm, that serves as a reservoir for blood, destroys old red blood cells, and contains lymphocytes that combat blood-borne antigens.

Milt

Fish sperm, including the seminal fluid.

Spleen

A homologous organ or tissue in other vertebrates.
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Milt

The reproductive glands of male fishes when filled with this fluid.

Spleen

(Obsolete) This organ conceived as the seat of emotions or passions.

Milt

To fertilize (fish roe) with milt.

Spleen

Ill temper
Vent one's spleen.

Milt

(countable) The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

Spleen

(Archaic) Melancholy.

Milt

The semen of a male fish.

Spleen

(Obsolete) A whim; a caprice.

Milt

(transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Spleen

In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.

Milt

The spleen.

Spleen

A bad mood; spitefulness.

Milt

The spermatic fluid of fishes.

Spleen

A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.

Milt

To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Spleen

(obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.

Milt

Fish sperm or sperm-filled reproductive gland; having a creamy texture

Spleen

A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

Milt

Seminal fluid produced by male fish

Spleen

To dislike.

Spleen

To annoy or irritate.

Spleen

(ambitransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.

Spleen

To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.

Spleen

To excise or remove.

Spleen

A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.

Spleen

Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
In noble minds some dregs remain,Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.

Spleen

A fit of anger; choler.

Spleen

A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.

Spleen

Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
Bodies changed to various forms by spleen.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise:And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Spleen

A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
Thy silly thought enforces my spleen.

Spleen

To dislke.

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

Spleen

A feeling of resentful anger

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