splenosisn.
/splɪˈnəʊsɪs/ Medicine.
The presence in the body of numerous separate pieces of living splenic tissue.
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elf-cake1579
ague cake1597
splenitis1753
lienitis1845
perisplenitis1881
wandering spleen1897
splenohepatomegaly1900
spleno-megaly1900
hypersplenism1914
hyposplenism1914
splenosis1939
1939 Buchbinder & Lipkoff in Surgery VI. 933 A case is reported of autotransplantation of splenic tissue throughout the abdominal cavity following trauma of the spleen... We offer the term splenosis to describe this condition.
1947 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 56 376/2 A case of splenosis is reported, in which seeding occurred after splenectomy for non-traumatic reasons.
1973 A. I. S. MacPherson et al. Spleen ix. 224 The seeding of viable cells from the ruptured spleen throughout the peritoneal cavity and their subsequent growth to form numerous tiny nodules of histologically normal splenic tissue has been described and has been given the name ‘Splenosis’.
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