var. of SPLENO- before vowels, occurring in a few medical terms, as Splenæmia, -algia [cf. F. splénalgie], -algic a.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), II. 529. The Splenalgia, or pain in the spleen…, is for the most part a slight attack of this disease [splenitis].
1850. Ogilvie, Splenalgy, a pain in the spleen or its region.
1858. Aitken, Pract. Med., 417. This form of the disease [leucocythæmia] has been named splenæmia by Virchow.
