Don't worry about it. Check this out. The spleen's that soft, purple organ located right behind the stomach and under the lungs. It's about five inches wide and weighs about six ounces.

K-9 Aries had surgery to remove his spleen in January and is on track for a 'full recovery,' the department said Sunday.

4 Department of Family and Preventative Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA 5 Department of Family Medicine/Sports Medicine, University of Kentucky Objectives: To ...

Contrary to established dogma, the spleen is not the principal source of the pro-inflammatory cytokine called tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which drives the sort of system-wide inflammation seen in ...