spleen
lien
In 18 atlases
- Adult male (BodyParts3D)
- Real CT case s0462: female, 77
- Real CT case s0616: male, 58
- Real CT case s0751: male, 62
- Real CT case s0923: female, 41
- Real CT case s0963: female, 58
and 12 more
- Real CT case s1249: female, 93
- Real CT case s1397: male, 73
- Real CT case s1580: male, 9
- Real CT case s1784: male, 33
- Real CT case s1789: female, 21
- Real CT case s2043: male, 15
- Real CT case s2075: female, 5
- Adult female organs (HuBMAP HRA)
- Adult male organs (HuBMAP HRA)
- Abdomen (SPL atlas)
- Male torso and inner organs (Voxel-Man, Visible Human)
- Adult male, detailed (Z-Anatomy)
Key points
- The spleen is a blood-filtering lymphatic organ in the upper left abdomen, beneath the diaphragm and behind the stomach.
- Its surfaces relate to the diaphragm, stomach, left kidney and colon, while its hilum provides passage for vessels and nerves.
- The splenic artery supplies the spleen, and the splenic vein carries blood towards the liver through the portal venous system.
- Red pulp filters blood, while white pulp supports immune responses to material carried in the bloodstream.
Definition
The organ that functions to filter blood and to store red corpuscles and platelets.
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Arterial supply
- splenic artery
- Venous drainage
- splenic vein
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
Practice questions
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 5159
- TA98
- A13.2.01.001
- FMA
- 7196
- UBERON
- 0002106
- Wikidata
- Q9371