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.
sago spleen
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.
sa·go spleen (s  g )n. Amyloidosis in the spleen affecting chiefly the malpighian bodies. |
sago spleen
[sā′gō]
a form of amyloid spleen that mainly affects the malpighian bodies.
sago spleen
the white pulp of the spleen is enlarged and protrudes through the capsule like grains of sago. Occurs in amyloidosis.
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