spleen
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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
Normal old mice accumulated senescent neutrophils in the liver, spleen and bone marrow.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 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
Three hundred years ago, everybody "knew" that anger was controlled by the spleen.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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
These spleens were the size of a tangerine and were leathery.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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