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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Explain the anatomy of the spleen Spleen

Explain the anatomy of the spleen Spleen


Spleen member lymphoma thin sponge, which is part of the lymphatic system and the circulatory system, a rectangular, a dark red, and weighs about 180 grams, a length of about 12 - 15 cm, width about 7 - 10 cm.
The spleen is located in the upper-left side of the abdomen, behind the stomach and below the diaphragm and the last rib.
Spleen crisp and fast damage and disruption, and despite Oheetmh and benefits but that the body can do without it, especially after the age of 7 years, so it is not essential to life, especially in the cases of the individual certain diseases requiring resection (in the case of damage or hyperactivity or cancer of the lymphatic system or accidents ), and the liver and bone marrow blood nomination on behalf of the spleen, however, suffered some people (in the absence of the spleen) bacterial infections or the blood, and may require patients to Ttiam reduce infection.
Spleen injuries are more common than other members because of its location in the abdomen, were injured due to a car accident



The functions of the spleen:
Did not come to know all the functions of the spleen but it is based:
1 - contributes to the spleen with the liver in the manufacture of red blood cells in the embryo, and loses job after birth
2 - is a major spleen stored blood (it can store 1/5 to 1/4 human blood), where the storage of blood on the focused image, and pour it in the circulatory system in case of emergency
3 - The spleen organizing the amount of blood passing in the blood vessels
4 - works spleen cleanses the blood of impurities and microbes thanks pockets and voids many bloody lining cells phagocyte
5 - The spleen cemetery erythrocytes, and should be referred to a red blood cells die before they reach the spleen and not in it, but bury the
6 - The spleen collects red blood cells and eradication of aging and this important function where degrade hemoglobin and used by the liver to make bile and go iron contributes to the formation of new hemoglobin
7 - plays spleen role in immune thanks to the lymph nodes (Kiryat ) that make white blood cells lymphocytes, as the spleen contains clots of white blood cells called lymphocytes launches special proteins in the blood, and called these proteins b antibodies that fight bacteria and viruses and any other materials cause infection, and the spleen is the extermination of parasites and bacteria by macrophages (large cells found in the blanks spongy)

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