Path. [a. Gr. σπληνῖτις, f. σπλήν SPLEEN sb.: see -ITIS.] Inflammation of the spleen, or a particular form of this.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl. s.v., Splenitis is also used by some authors to express a tumor or inflammation of the spleen.
1776–84. Cullen, First Lines Physic., Wks. 1827, II. 81. I might here consider the Splenitis, or inflammation of the Spleen.
1835. Cycl. Pract. Med., IV. 55/2. The symptoms of acute splenitis … are … a feeling of weight, fulness, and pain in the left side.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 534. The softened and often diffluent condition of the spleen seen in cases of bacterial infection may be described as a splenitis.
