spleen

Lancaster County coroner Stephen Diamantoni, a Republican, has said one of the two infants died of a ruptured spleen rather than measles itself.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

A forensic pathologist in his office determined the infant died from a ruptured spleen and the pathologist said, in his opinion, that the cause of death was unrelated to measles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Roughly 90% of circulating neutrophils eventually arrive in the liver, spleen, and bone marrow, where other immune cells remove them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

Fox had had parts of his spleen, pancreas, and small and large intestine removed, and yet his tubes and catheter were out and he was already walking with a walker.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Diego chuckled like a ruptured spleen was hilarious.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

Erewhon says the mix of uncooked beef livers, hearts, pancreases, kidneys and spleens swirling through the coconut cream in the beverage should not be considered “raw.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024

The study documents germinal center–like structures in the spleens of rainbow trout, the first time anyone has detected them in bony fish.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 31, 2023

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

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2021

They appeared to have died of heat stress, brought on, he suspected, by the problems with the heating system in the building—but their spleens were weirdly enlarged.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston