Standard Lemma guide

splenomegaly

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Enlargement of the spleen (process); an enlargement of the spleen (instance).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

an abnormal enlargement of the spleen

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hypertrophy

History

Etymology

From spleno- + -megaly.

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: հիպերսպլենիզմ (hipersplenizm) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Armenian: գերփայծաղություն (gerpʻaycaġutʻyun) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Catalan: esplenomegàlia — enlargement of the spleen
  • Czech: splenomegalie — enlargement of the spleen
  • Dhivehi: ހުންކޮށި ބޮޑުވުން (hun̊koṣi boḍuvun̊) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Dutch: splenomegalie — enlargement of the spleen
  • French: splénomégalie — enlargement of the spleen
  • Galician: esplenomegalia — enlargement of the spleen
  • German: Splenomegalie — enlargement of the spleen
  • Hindi: स्प्लेनोमेगाली (splenomegālī) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Hungarian: lépmegnagyobbodás — enlargement of the spleen
  • Indonesian: splenomegali — enlargement of the spleen
  • Italian: splenomegalia — enlargement of the spleen
  • Japanese: 脾腫 (pízhǒng) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Kazakh: спленомегалия (splenomegaliä) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Luxembourgish: Mëlzvergréisserung — enlargement of the spleen
  • Mongolian: спленомегали (splenomegali) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Polish: splenomegalia — enlargement of the spleen
  • Portuguese: esplenomegalia — enlargement of the spleen
  • Romanian: splenomegalie — enlargement of the spleen
  • Russian: спленомегалия (splenomegalija) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Spanish: esplenomegalia — enlargement of the spleen
  • Swedish: splenomegali — enlargement of the spleen
  • Tagalog: malakimpali — enlargement of the spleen
  • Telugu: బల్ల (balla) — enlargement of the spleen
  • Turkish: hipersplenizm — enlargement of the spleen
  • Ukrainian: спленомегалія (splenomehalija) — enlargement of the spleen