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Etymologically, spleen comes from the Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn), where it was the idiomatic equivalent of the heart in modern English. Persius, in his satires, associated spleen with immoderate laughter. [36] The native Old English word for it is milt, now primarily used for animals; a loanword from Latin is lien.
1905 diagram of the internal organs of human body. In the study of anatomy, viscera (sg.: viscus) refers to the internal organs of the abdominal, thoracic, and pelvic cavities. [5] The abdominal organs may be classified as solid organs or hollow organs. The solid organs are the liver, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, and adrenal glands.
In human anatomy, the splenic artery or lienal artery, an older term, is the blood vessel that supplies oxygenated blood to the spleen. It branches from the celiac artery, and follows a course superior to the pancreas. It is known for its tortuous path to the spleen.
By this method, body diagrams can be derived by pasting organs into one of the "plain" body images shown below. This method requires a graphics editor that can handle transparent images, in order to avoid white squares around the organs when pasting onto the body image.
This category is for articles about the Spleen, an organ found in virtually all vertebrate animals with important roles in regard to red blood cells and the immune system. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
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A generally regarded valid map of B cell lymphopoiesis is as follows in sequence, in two parts with the first being in the bone marrow and the second in the spleen:. [18] The development process in the bone marrow occurs in germinal centers. In the bone marrow Pro-B; Pre-B-I; Pre-B-II large; Pre-B-II small; Imm(ature) In the spleen T1; T2/T3