Crossword-Solution: SPLEENS 7 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Cabrolius, Morgagni, and others have found two spleens in one subject; Cheselden and Fallopius report three; Fantoni mentions four found in one subject; Guy-Patin has seen five, none as large as the ordinary organ; Hollerius, Kerckringius, and others have remarked on multiple spleens.

There is a possibility that in some of the cases of multiple spleens reported the organ is really single but divided into several lobes.

Albrecht mentions a case shown at a meeting of the Vienna Medical Society of a very large number of spleens found in the mesogastrium, peritoneum, on the mesentery and transverse mesocolon, in Douglas' pouch, etc.

Every one of these spleens had a capsule, was covered by peritoneum, and exhibited the histologic appearance of splenic tissue.

And all th’ unsettled humours of the land; Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, With ladies’ faces and fierce dragons’ spleens, Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes here.