The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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They were looking at “scurfy” mice; males are unexpectedly born with flaky skin and enlarged spleens and only live for a few weeks, because their organs are attacked by their own immune cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Erewhon says the mix of uncooked beef livers, hearts, pancreases, kidneys and spleens swirling through the coconut cream in the beverage should not be considered “raw.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
When the researchers transfused red blood cells into the animals, macrophages in their spleens gobbled cells that had been exposed to CpG-laden DNA, but ate fewer red blood cells that hadn’t encountered the DNA.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 19, 2021
Yet this bedrock right to vent our spleens against officials is now being challenged.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2021
They appeared to have died of heat stress, brought on, he suspected, by the problems with the heating system in the building—but their spleens were weirdly enlarged.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
