Jamie Anderson

When I ruptured my spleen, I was about to win the overall Series for the World Tour, and I was at the last event in Vermont for the U.S. Open and was having a great day. Then I just got a little too excited and just face-planted, and I knew something was wrong. I really couldn't breathe, and my whole body was in so much pain.

American Athlete

Steven Weber

Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

American Actor

Henry Gray

The vesicles of the spleen, which form one of the most important elements of this organ in its mature state, are not developed until the period of incubation is near to its completion.

English Scientist

Amy Hoggart

My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.

British Comedian

Sloane Crosley

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

American Writer

Jeff MacNelly

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

American Cartoonist

The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.

Olivia Wilde

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.

American Actress

Roddy Piper

I broke my right ankle. Four ribs. One rib went into my liver. My spleen. My back in two places.

Canadian Athlete

Amy Purdy

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

The spleen is located under the ribcage, on your body's left side.

Localization of Spleen

Besides fighting infection, the spleen filters old blood cells and stores blood.

Spleen Functions

In sports, a spleen injury can be serious and needs medical attention.

Spleen in Sports

To 'vent one's spleen' means to release anger or frustration verbally.

Expressing Frustration

'Spleen' implies strong negative emotions, often in dramatic settings.

Emotional Intensity

In historical contexts, 'spleen' was thought to be the source of moods.

Historic Usage

'Spleen' is often stronger than 'spite' and suggests a lasting bad temper.

Spleen vs. Spite

'Spleen' can be linked to actions that show one's irritation or discontent.

Associated Behaviors

Spleen is rarely used alone in modern speech for emotions; usually part of phrases.

Cultural Perception

 and general communication skills to physicians, nurses, medical students and other health care workers. And I thought I'd get a ton of great student essays about dissecting cadavers and poems about the spleen. And I did. But almost immediately, I started getting more essays that made me really anxious

The mental health...

 people, you lot -- even my own body in the world, I can perceive it as an object from the outside. But my experiences of the body from within, they're not like that at all. I don't perceive my kidneys here, my liver here, my spleen I don't know where my spleen is,

Your brain hallucinates...

 others, only counterclockwise, and even though the human body looks pretty symmetrical on the outside, it's a different story on the inside. Most of your vital organs are arranged asymmetrically. The heart, stomach, spleen, and pancreas lie towards the left.

Why are human bodies...

 The location of the clogged vessel determines the specific symptoms experienced. A blockage in the spleen, part of the immune system, puts patients at risk for dangerous infections. A pileup in the lungs can produce fevers and difficulty breathing.

How this disease changes...

 liver failure he had a spleen failure we took him to a hospital right away and in the hospital after surgery a few days later the doctor came to my mom and he was a idiot doctor he came to her and said so do you have any more children

From Revenge to...

 It wasn't until days later as I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis, a vaccine-preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I lost my spleen, my kidneys,

Amy Purdy: Living beyond...

 The virus spread through the air, attacking the skin cells, bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes of its victims. The unlucky infected developed fevers, vomiting, and rashes. 30% of infected people died

How we conquered the...

 In fact, it had come back three times. When we first saw her, Emily was very ill. Her official diagnosis was advanced, incurable leukemia. Cancer had invaded her bone marrow, her liver, her spleen.

A "living drug" that...

 they have genetically-hardwired unusually large spleens that act as oxygen stores, enabling them to stay underwater for longer— an adaptation similar to that of deep diving seals.

Is human evolution...

 Whatever it is you are struggling to remember, it is not poised on the tip of your tongue, not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen. It has floated away

Spleen

An organ near your stomach that fights infection.

A bad feeling or anger against someone.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Bad temper; spite.

Often appears as...

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Localization of Spleen

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Spleen in Sports

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