Spleen
noun
An organ near your stomach that fights infection.
The doctor said that his spleen is infected and needs to be removed.
noun
A bad feeling or anger against someone.
She vented her spleen at her cheating boyfriend, expressing her anger and betrayal.
Often appears as...
- vent one's spleen
- full of spleen
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Disapproving
noun
Bad temper; spite.
In his spleen, he broke his phone.
Often appears as...
- vent one's spleen
- full of spleen
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
An organ near your stomach that fights infection.
The doctor said that his spleen is infected and needs to be removed.
noun
A bad feeling or anger against someone.
She vented her spleen at her cheating boyfriend, expressing her anger and betrayal.
Often appears as...
- vent one's spleen
- full of spleen
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
Bad temper; spite.
In his spleen, he broke his phone.
Often appears as...
- vent one's spleen
- full of spleen
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Localization of Spleen
The spleen is located under the ribcage, on your body's left side.
My left side hurts; could it be the spleen?
Pro Tip 2/3Spleen Functions
Besides fighting infection, the spleen filters old blood cells and stores blood.
He has trouble fighting infections due to a spleen disorder.
Pro Tip 3/3Spleen in Sports
In sports, a spleen injury can be serious and needs medical attention.
The footballer was sidelined due to a ruptured spleen.
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The mental health...
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
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Your brain hallucinates...
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,
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Why are human bodies...
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.
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How this disease changes...
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.
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From Revenge to...
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
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Amy Purdy: Living beyond...
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,
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How we conquered the...
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
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A "living drug" that...
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.
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Is human evolution...
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.
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Billy Collins: Everyday...
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
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The mental health...
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
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
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,
Video examples
Why are human bodies...
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.
Video examples
How this disease changes...
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.
Video examples
From Revenge to...
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
Video examples
Amy Purdy: Living beyond...
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,
Video examples
How we conquered the...
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
Video examples
A "living drug" that...
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.
Video examples
Is human evolution...
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.
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Billy Collins: Everyday...
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
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Jamie Anderson
American Athlete
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.
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Steven Weber
American Actor
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.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
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.
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Amy Hoggart
British Comedian
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.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
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.
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Jeff MacNelly
American Cartoonist
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.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
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.
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Olivia Wilde
American Actress
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.
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Roddy Piper
Canadian Athlete
I broke my right ankle. Four ribs. One rib went into my liver. My spleen. My back in two places.
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Amy Purdy
American Actress
I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.
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Jamie Anderson
American Athlete
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.
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Steven Weber
American Actor
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.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
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.
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Amy Hoggart
British Comedian
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.
Quote examples
Sloane Crosley
American Writer
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.
Quote examples
Jeff MacNelly
American Cartoonist
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.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
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.
Quote examples
Olivia Wilde
American Actress
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.
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Roddy Piper
Canadian Athlete
I broke my right ankle. Four ribs. One rib went into my liver. My spleen. My back in two places.
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Amy Purdy
American Actress
I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.
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