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The word spleen comes from the Greek σπλήν (splḗn) and is the idiomatic equivalent of the heart in English, i.e., to be good-spleened (εὔσπλαγχνος, eúsplankhnos) means to be good-hearted or compassionate.
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Al-Salem, A. (2016). The Spleen and Sickle Cell Anemia. In: Medical and Surgical Complications of Sickle Cell Anemia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24762-5_5
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