Petulance

Usage examples of spleen.

After some tugging, he extracted a curved grey ancipital horn, which had punctured the spleen and sunk deep into the body.

Lieutaud is quoted as describing a postmortem examination of an adult who had died of hydropsy, in whom the liver and spleen were entirely missing.

If, however, from these cases we deduct those suffering with leukocythemia and lardaceous spleen, in which the operation should not be performed, the mortality in the remaining 85 cases is reduced to 33 per cent.

Invading the leukocyte reservoirs, enemy cells permeated rigid walls of bone, forced their way inside the fragile spleen, spilled over and swam freely through the wide lymphatic passages.

A second possibility arises from the fact that the thymus is composed of lymphoid tissue, very like that of the spleen, the tonsils, and the lymph nodes.

The structure of the spleen and that of the mesenteric glands are similar, although the former is provided with a scanty supply of lymphatic vessels, and the chyle does not pass through it, as through the mesenteric glands.

Hippocrates advises a moxa of mushrooms applied over the spleen for melting or dissolving it.

The injuries were listed more specifically on the emergency room report, and Adam had to reach back into his own college physiology class to remember what all the words meant--open fracture of the left clavicle, fracture of the right olecranon process, anterior dislocation of right shoulder, fracture of ribs eight through ten left side, lacerated liver and spleen, ruptured bladder, crushed metacarpals on right hand, broken nose, laceration of scalp, face, and neck, crushed right ankle.

The stomach, spleen, omentum, and transverse colon were found lying in the left pleura.

Margland, extremely piqued, vented her spleen in oblique sarcasms, and sought to heal her offended pride by appeals for justice to her sagacity and foresight in the whole business.

Then when he clicked three times on empty cylinders Roscoe caught a hapless duck by the throat and tried to pistolwhip it and punch its lights out and drag it to shore where he could knee-drop it, rupturing its spleen.

You provide me samples of blood, spleen, liver, kidney, and testes, although all have been compromised from funeral home infusation.

CHAPTER XXIII I Purchase a Handsome Carriage, and Proceed to Parma With the Old Captain and the Young Frenchwoman--I Pay a Visit to Javotte, and Present Her With a Beautiful Pair of Gold Bracelets--My Perplexities Respecting My Lovely Travelling Companion--A Monologue--Conversation with the Captain--Tete-a-Tete with Henriette The conversation was animated, and the young female officer was entertaining everybody, even Madame Querini, although she hardly took the trouble of concealing her spleen.

VII Now the meadows with crocus besprent, And the asphodel woodsides she left, And the lake-slopes, the ravishing scent Of narcissus, dark-sweet, for the cleft That tutors the torrent-brook, Delaying its forceful spleen With many a wind and crook Through rock to the broad ravine.

Organs and blood vessels were warped and displaced, the lungs mismatched and the spleen elongated like a fish.