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The researchers found that zinc-deficient mice had increased A. baumannii bacterial burden in the lungs, spread of bacteria to the spleen, and higher mortality compared to mice with adequate dietary zinc consumption.

The two boys were discovered in their beds a few minutes later and had suffered skull fractures and injuries to their ribs, spleen, a punctured lung and internal bleeding.

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It was once thought that the only place in the body where endometriosis did not occur was the spleen, but in 2020 it was found there also.

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One was brittle-boned and mostly blind; another was missing a spleen.

Erewhon says the mix of uncooked beef liver, heart, pancreas, kidney and spleen swirling through the coconut cream in the beverage should not be considered “raw.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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