RT Book, Section
A1 Tavakkoli, Ali
A2 Zinner, Michael J.
A2 Ashley, Stanley W.
SR Print(0)
ID 57020740
T1 Chapter 62. The Spleen
T2 Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163388-8
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57020740
RD 2024/04/24
AB The  spleen  was  regarded  by  Galen  as  “an  organ  of  mystery,”  by  Aristotle  as  unnecessary,  and  by  Pliny  as  an  organ  that  might  hinder  the  speed  of  runners.1  In  many  societies,  spleen  was  also  thought  to  be  affiliated  with  mood.  The  word  spleen  comes  from  a  Greek  word  that  has  idiomatic  equivalent  of  the  heart  in  English,  that  is,  to  be  good-spleened  means  to  be  good-hearted  or  compassionate.  In  contrast,  spleen  has  been  typically  associated  with  melancholy,  and  in  19th-century  England  women  in  bad  humor  were  said  to  be  afflicted  by  the  spleen  or  the  vapors  of  the  spleen.  Although  over  the  last  century  the  functions  of  spleen  have  become  clearer,  an  element  of  mystery  remains  around  the  organ.