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the largest single mass of lymphoid tissue
in the body |
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Important role in the defense
of the body |
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| What is the spleen's important role? |
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| To filter the peripheral blood |
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| What is the spleen's major function? |
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| Where is the spleen located? |
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Entire spleen is covered by peritoneum
except what? |
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| What supplies the spleen? |
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Superior mesenteric vein
(SMV) |
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| The splenic vein joins what to form the portal vein? |
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| Complete absence of the spleen |
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usually found near the hilum or
inferior border of spleen |
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| Where are accessory spleens normally seen? |
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a spleen that has migrated from its
normal location |
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| The spleen acts as what for blood? |
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Within the lobules of the spleen are found
these tissues |
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| composed of splenic nodules and contains large numbers of lymphocytes |
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| Fills the remaining spaces of lobules and contains large numbers of red blood cells |
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| The spleen can produce new what? |
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| The reticuloendothelial system |
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Definition
| Phagocytosis of RBC and the breakdown of hemoglobin occurs throughout where? |
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| The phagocytosis of RBC and the breakdown of hemoglobin |
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Definition
| Half of what is located in the spleen? |
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| As RBC's pass through the spleen it inspects them for imperfections and destroys those it recognizes as abnormal |
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| The process of removing the nuclei from the red blood cells |
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| The process by which the spleen removes abnormal red blood cells |
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homogeneous with low level echoes,
compared to the liver |
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| Sonographic appearance of Spleen |
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| indicates the % of RBC per volume of blood. Low readings may indicate hemorrhage or internal bleeding within the body |
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presence of bacteria within the body.
(Sepsis -in bloodstream) |
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increased WBC's,
typically indicates an infection |
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| Spleen atrophys on its own |
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