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[spleen] / splin /


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They also analyzed the liver and spleen using techniques known as "vibrating sample magnetometry" and "magnetic cell separation."

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

The former pharmacy worker also lost her spleen, battled pneumonia and developed gallstones which she was told might require further surgery.

From BBC Feb. 20, 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

Agnes cares for her second daughter so devoutly that her worry can’t help but portend tragedy, and Zhao and O’Farrell’s foreshadowing is as subtle as a sword to the spleen.

From Salon Nov. 30, 2025

When you cut into a normal spleen with a scalpel, it gives about as much resistance to the knife as a jelly doughnut, and it drips a lot of blood.

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

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

When the researchers transfused red blood cells into the animals, macrophages in their spleens gobbled cells that had been exposed to CpG-laden DNA, but ate fewer red blood cells that hadn’t encountered the DNA.

From Science Magazine Oct. 19, 2021

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

From Salon Mar. 26, 2021

But these spleens had swelled up and turned as hard as a rock.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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