wandering spleen

spleen (splēn) a large, glandlike organ situated in the upper left part of the abdominal cavity, lateral to the cardiac end of the stomach. Among its functions are the disintegration of erythrocytes and the setting free of hemoglobin, which the liver converts into bilirubin; the genesis of new erythrocytes during fetal life and in the newborn; serving as a blood reservoir; and production of lymphocytes and plasma cells.

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accessory spleen  a connected or detached outlying portion, or exclave, of the spleen.

diffuse waxy spleen  amyloid degeneration of the spleen involving especially the coats of the venous sinuses and the reticulum of the organ.

floating spleen , movable spleen one displaced and abnormally movable.

sago spleen  one with amyloid infiltration, the malpighian corpuscles looking like grains of sand.

wandering spleen  floating s.

waxy spleen  a spleen affected with amyloid degeneration.

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wandering spleen.

See floating spleen.