spleen
67
5.8
- noun
- /spliːn/
- Specialized
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- We couldn't save his spleen, you know, and his other organs will be attacked by infection after infection.
- ruptured spleen
- enlarged spleen
- liver and spleen
You have other organs, your liver, your spleen, your kidneys.
- You have other organs, your liver, your spleen, your kidneys.
- And if you're eating liver and heart and spleen, you might not even need to supplement with them.
- The mass was coming off of his spleen and there was fluid around the spleen which was internal bleeding.
- I ruptured my spleen, broke my ribs, my face, my nose.
- You've got receptors on your pancreas, on your heart, on your liver, on your spleen and in your brain.
- But the surgeon did come in and said we hope he's not going to lose his spleen.
- And those organs of the body, your gut and your liver and your spleen, they are also communicating with the brain.
- She died of more of a traumatic injury when she tripped and fell in her home and may have ruptured her spleen.
- You have a weak organ system like your pancreas or spleen or liver or overwhelmed.
- He had to go into the woods, to quote, regrow his spleen or something.
- Worry cause disease of the upper GI system, your pancreas, your spleen, all those areas.
- Have you ever prescribed a recommended any sort of glandular like liver or spleen or heart?
- And for every organ in your body, whether or not that's your heart or your lungs or your spleen, both.
- And, and I should point out, as you well know, every organ, spleen, pancreas, they must, they all must be monitored.
- If this is that Grim Reaper, if this is that dirty daddy that's going to freaking hide a knife inside of your inside of your spleen, then yeah, you have to.
Examples
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The mass was coming off of his spleen and there was fluid around the spleen which was internal bleeding.
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The subject of the evening's medical update is You and Your Spleen and our host.
Fiction book (1993) -
His spleen is injured, so I gotta go back in and stop the bleeding.
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His newest project will look at the role of the spleen in fighting Babesia.
Academic text (1994) -
And those organs of the body, your gut and your liver and your spleen, they are also communicating with the brain.
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You have other organs, your liver, your spleen, your kidneys.
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The tests show the same for major organs - the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys.
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The dive reflex and one of the things that occurs in the dive reflex is that the spleen contracts.
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An external device that mimics the structure of a spleen and cleanses the blood in acute sepsis has been tested recently.
Academic text (2017) -
The doctor carefully examined the spleen to check for any signs of disease.
Synonyms
23
3.0
A main part inside the body that does an important job, like the heart or liver
Compounds
How Vascular
387
2.3
- Specialized
67
5.8
- Specialized
1
6.0
43
3.7
- Specialized
33
4.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spleen (organ) comes from an old Greek word splēn that named the same body part, and that name stayed in English, so today spleen means the dark-red organ on the left that helps fight infection and keep the blood healthy.