{"id":1673,"date":"2017-07-02T07:04:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2017-07-02T07:04:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T14:04:25","slug":"spleen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/07\/02\/spleen\/","title":{"rendered":"Spleen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spleen is involved in the immune system and is responsible for removing old blood cells. \u00a0It sits under the rib cage in humans on the left side of the abdomen. \u00a0In the cat, the spleen is an elongated structure that is often reddish-brown in color on preserved specimens. \u00a0 A <strong>splenectomy<\/strong> is is a surgical procedure where the spleen is removed, often because of an abdominal injury that ruptures the organ. \u00a0A person who has had their spleen removed is more likely get get illnesses or infections because of a decrease in immune function.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/spleen-labeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1675\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/spleen-labeled.jpg\" alt=\"spleen\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/spleen-labeled.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/spleen-labeled-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/spleen-labeled-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/spleen-labeled-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spleen is involved in the immune system and is responsible for removing old blood cells. \u00a0It sits under the rib cage in humans on the left side of the abdomen. \u00a0In the cat, the spleen is an elongated structure that is often reddish-brown in color on preserved specimens. \u00a0 A splenectomy is is a surgical procedure where the spleen is removed, often because of an abdominal injury that ruptures the organ. \u00a0A person who has had their spleen removed is more likely get get illnesses or infections because of a decrease in immune function. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[394,74,393,391,392],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-abdomen","tag-anatomy","tag-immune","tag-spleen","tag-splenectomy","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}