| Liebow, Averill | <person> Austrian-U.S. Pulmonary pathologist, 1911-1978. See: usual interstitial pneumonia of Liebow. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| liedertafel | A popular name for any society or club which meets for the practice of male part songs. Origin: G, lit, a song table. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lief | A dear one; a sweetheart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| liege | 1. Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord. "She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; And he, he reverenced his liege lady there." (Tennyson) 2. Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject. 3. Full; perfect; complete; pure. Liege homage, perfect, i. E, legal, power; specif, having health requisite to do legal acts. Liege widowhood, perfect, i. E, pure, widowhood. Origin: OE. Lige, lege, F. Lige, LL. Ligius, legius, liege, unlimited, complete, prob. Of German origin; cf. G. Ledig free from bonds and obstacles, MHG. Ledec, ledic, lidic, freed, loosed, and Charta Ottonis de Benthem, ann, "ligius homo quod Teutonice dicitur ledigman," i. E, uni soli homagio obligatus, free from all obligations to others; influenced by L.ligare to bind. G. Ledig perh. Orig. Meant, free to go where one pleases, and is perh. Akin to E.lead to conduct. Cf. Lead to guide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lien | An alternate term for spleen and more common to use spleno-. Lien accessorius: accessory spleen. Lien mobilis: floating spleen. Lien succenturiatus: accessory spleen. Origin: L. Lien (05 Mar 2000) |
| lienal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic. Origin: L. Lien the spleen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lienal artery | <anatomy, artery> The largest branch of the coeliac trunk with distribution to the spleen, pancreas, stomach and greater omentum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lienculus | Origin: NL, dim. Of L. Lien the spleen. <anatomy> One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lienectomy | An obsolete term for splenectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lieno-intestinal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog. Origin: l. Lien the spleen + E. Intestinal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lienomedullary | Synonym: splenomyelogenous. Origin: Lieno-+ G. Medulla, marrow (05 Mar 2000) |
| lienomyelogenous | Originating in the spleen and bone marrow, denoting a form of leukaemia. Synonym: lienomedullary, lienomyelogenous, splenomedullary. Origin: spleno-+ G. Myelos, marrow, + -gen, producing (05 Mar 2000) |
| lienopancreatic | Relating to the spleen and the pancreas. Synonym: lienopancreatic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lienophrenic ligament | <anatomy> A peritoneal fold (portion of the greater omentum) which extends from the diaphragm and the anterior aspect of the left kidney to the hilar region of the spleen, conducting the splenic vessels from the posterior body wall to the spleen. Synonym: ligamentum lienorenale, ligamentum phrenicolienale, ligamentum splenorenale, lienophrenic ligament, lienorenal ligament, ligamentum phrenicosplenicum, phrenicolienal ligament, phrenicosplenic ligament, phrenosplenic ligament, sustentaculum lienis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lienorenal | Synonym: splenorenal. Origin: Lieno-+ L. Ren, kidney (05 Mar 2000) |