Word: spleening
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...Other organs which probably secrete hormones: pineal (in the brain), thymus (back of the collar bone), liver, heart, spleen...
...disclose a cause or cure of the disease called leukemia. In this disease white blood cells which normally should number 7,500 per cu. mm. multiply in some cases to as much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered for a time slow up the excess white cell production. Transfusion of normal blood has little effect, at least...
...France must pay, tried to form a Cabinet on that basis. He raised such hopes in Washington that Congressional leaders were persuaded by the State Department to hurl no speeches at France which might make the Premier-designate's task more difficult. With an effort Congressmen & Senators bottled their spleen. Thus aided M. Chautemps proceeded to?fail. He found plenty of French Deputies rueful over what they had done but no majority ready...
...Pittsburgh hill, saw that he was about to slide into a pole. He threw himself from the sled, crashed into another pole. Something seemed to break within his abdomen. At Homeopathic Medical & Surgical Hospital where his doctor father took him, x-rays showed that he had ruptured his spleen...
...spleen, or milt, is a ductless gland 2½ by 4½ in. lying under the lower left ribs. It does not seem to have any particular secretion like other ductless glands, its value to the body is not well understood. In unborn children its chief duty seems to be to help make red blood cells. Destroying worn-out and useless blood cells seems to be its prime function after birth. It may be cut out with apparently only transient inconvenience to the person. When ruptured it must come out quickly...