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spleen

[spleen] / splin /


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In addition, OL improved abnormal changes in immune organs including the thymus and spleen.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

And amid all the sturm und drang, each character projects onto the other a pent-up spleen of parent-child neuroses and unmet expectations.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Her spleen had to be removed, leaving her vulnerable to infection.

From BBC May 22, 2026

Kala-azar is spread by sandflies and is one of the most dangerous neglected tropical diseases, with a fatality rate of 95 percent if untreated, causing fever, weight loss, and enlargement of the spleen and liver.

From Barron's Feb. 8, 2026

Heat stress wouldn’t enlarge the spleen, would it?

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

They were looking at “scurfy” mice; males are unexpectedly born with flaky skin and enlarged spleens and only live for a few weeks, because their organs are attacked by their own immune cells.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 6, 2025

People without spleens are more susceptible to severe bacterial infections.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2022

Yet this bedrock right to vent our spleens against officials is now being challenged.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2021

In his barn this winter, Lundgren has been compiling some of the newest evidence—data suggesting that a significant number of wild deer in the upper Midwest have neonics in their spleens.

From National Geographic Feb. 5, 2021

These spleens were the size of a tangerine and were leathery.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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