我叫脾脏,是一个很多人都感到陌生的器官,对于成年人来说,我的功用不算太大,其功能身体其它器官或组织基本上都可替代。但虽说如此,一旦因其它疾病,例如细菌或病毒感染而使我肿大起来,对身体就会有极坏的影响。我位于人体腹腔左上角,除非肿大至一定程度。否则不能在临床上触摸。而由于我的功用并不显著,故一般易被人们忽视,有人误将我当做“胰脏”,以为只是同一器官的两个称谓。我的功能主要是免疫、消灭不正常或老化的细胞及造血。三岁以下的儿童,由于体内其它组织还没有发育至能发挥重要免疫功能的程度,故我对于 My name is my spleen, an organ that many people feel unfamiliar with. For adults, my utility is not too great. Basically, other organs or tissues of my body function as substitutes. But even so, once I get swollen by other diseases, such as bacterial or viral infections, my body will have a very bad effect. I am located in the upper left corner of the human abdominal cavity, unless swollen to a certain extent. Otherwise you can not touch in the clinic. And because my function is not significant, it is generally easy to be overlooked, some mistakenly think of me as “pancreas”, that is only two titles of the same organ. My function is mainly immune, eliminate abnormal or aging cells and hematopoiesis. Children under the age of three, as other tissues in the body have not developed enough to play an important role in immune function, so I