• 17 parts
  • Checked October 2026

Spleen Anatomy Quiz

Tap each part of the spleen as it is named: in place, on its inner face, then under the microscope.

Spleen Anatomy Quiz

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Tap the gastrosplenic ligament

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Write the name of each numbered part.Answer key

  1. Spleen
  2. Stomach
  3. Left kidney
  4. Diaphragm
  5. Gastrosplenic ligament
  6. Hilum
  7. Splenic artery
  8. Splenic vein
  9. Gastric surface
  10. Renal surface
  11. Capsule
  12. Trabeculae
  13. White pulp
  14. Central artery
  15. Red pulp
  16. Splenic sinusoids
  17. Trabecular vein

Drawn for this site on 2026-10-05 by script. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a part is answered.

Next step See the spleen diagram with every name shown

All 17 parts on the diagram

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In place 5

  1. Spleen Lies between the stomach and the diaphragm.
  2. Stomach Its back wall touches the gastric surface of the spleen.
  3. Left kidney Touches the renal surface of the spleen.
  4. Diaphragm The sheet of muscle the outer face of the spleen rests against.
  5. Gastrosplenic ligament A fold of peritoneum from the stomach to the spleen.

Inner face 5

  1. Hilum A long cleft where vessels and nerves enter and leave.
  2. Splenic artery Brings blood to the spleen. It divides before it enters.
  3. Splenic vein Carries blood away from the spleen.
  4. Gastric surface The broad, hollow part that faces the stomach.
  5. Renal surface The narrower, flatter part that faces the left kidney.

Microscope 7

  1. Capsule The fibrous outer coat of the spleen.
  2. Trabeculae Fibrous bands that run inward from the capsule.
  3. White pulp Lymphoid tissue gathered around small arteries.
  4. Central artery The small artery that runs through white pulp.
  5. Red pulp Blood-filled tissue made of sinusoids and splenic cords.
  6. Splenic sinusoids Wide blood channels of the red pulp.
  7. Trabecular vein A vein that runs inside a trabecula.

How this list was compiled: Every name checked on 2026-10-01 and kept only where two independent sources use it. (1) Gray's Anatomy (1918), The Spleen, https://www.bartleby.com/107/278.html : the relations, the gastric and renal surfaces, the hilum, the gastrosplenic ligament, the fibroelastic coat (capsule), the trabeculae and the splenic pulp. (2) Wikipedia, Spleen, White pulp, Red pulp, Trabecular arteries and Gastrosplenic ligament, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spleen (its account of the surfaces repeats Gray, so it is not counted for them). (3) TeachMeAnatomy, The Spleen, https://teachmeanatomy.info/abdomen/viscera/spleen/ : position, ligaments, hilum, splenic artery and vein. (4) US National Cancer Institute, SEER Training Modules, Spleen, https://training.seer.cancer.gov/anatomy/lymphatic/components/spleen.html : capsule, white pulp, red pulp, venous sinuses. (5) Passages found by archive.org's full-text search: Color Atlas of Histology (1985), https://archive.org/details/coloratlasofhist0000gene (capsule, trabecula, white pulp, central artery, red pulp, splenic sinusoids, trabecular vein); Histology and Cell Biology (2002), https://archive.org/details/histologycellbio0000kier (central artery, red and white pulp); Atlas of Anatomy: Neck and Internal Organs (2006), https://archive.org/details/atlasofanatomyne0000schu (gastric surface, renal surface, hilum). Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-05 by script. Our own drawing, nothing traced. The three views were laid out by eye after three public domain plates in Henry Gray, Anatomy of the Human Body (20th US edition, 1918): the cross-section after fig. 1039, the peritoneum in the upper part of the abdomen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray1039.png), turned over so that it is seen from below; the inner face after fig. 1188, the visceral surface of the spleen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray1188.png), turned half round, with an idealised outline; the microscope view after fig. 1191, a section of a portion of the spleen (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray1191.png). A plan, not to scale: small gaps are left between organs that touch in life, and the kidneys are simplified. Licence: own work

How it works

This spleen anatomy quiz names a part and you tap it on the drawing. It is an anatomy labeling quiz: 17 parts on three drawings, five to seven at a time. Parts you miss are offered again at the end.

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What each stage asks

The first stage is a cut across the trunk: find the spleen, the stomach, the left kidney, the diaphragm and the gastrosplenic ligament. The second is the inner face, with the hilum, the splenic artery and vein, and the gastric and renal surfaces. The third is a section of tissue: capsule, trabeculae, white pulp with its central artery, red pulp with its sinusoids, and one trabecular vein.

Telling the pairs apart

The gastric surface is the broad, hollow one and the renal surface is narrower and flatter. White pulp is the round masses, each around a small artery; red pulp fills the field around them.

  • The cut across the trunk is drawn as seen from below, so the left kidney and the spleen are on the right of the picture.

Questions and answers

Where is the spleen located?

In the upper left of the abdomen, under the left part of the diaphragm. Its inner face touches the back wall of the stomach and the front of the left kidney.

What are the surfaces of the spleen?

A smooth, convex surface faces the diaphragm. On the inner, visceral surface a ridge separates a gastric part, against the stomach, from a renal part, against the left kidney. The quiz asks the gastric and renal surfaces.

What are the trabeculae of the spleen?

Small fibrous bands that run inward from the capsule and join into the framework of the organ. The spaces between them hold the splenic pulp. On the tissue drawing one of them carries the trabecular vein.

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