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Splash House 2026
Splash House 2026 was the 13th edition of Splash House, a 21-and-over poolside electronic music festival at Palm Springs, California hotel resorts, held across two August weekends.
Splash Mountain
Splash Mountain was a Disney log-flume ride themed to Song of the South, opening at Disneyland in 1989, Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland in 1992; the U.S. versions were rethemed as Tiana's Bayou Adventure, leaving Tokyo's as the only one.
Splash screen
A splash screen, also known as a welcome screen, is an initial screen displayed by software while it loads, typically showing a logo, version information, credits, or a copyright notice.
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 Love)
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 LOVE) is a 2015 MBC 54th-anniversary time-slip romance web drama in which math-fearing senior Jang Dan-bi lands in drought-era Joseon and tutors young King Lee Do; 10 Naver episodes, 2 TV parts, starring Kim Seul-gi and Yoon Doo-joon.
Splashdown
Splashdown is the landing of a spacecraft on water at the end of a spaceflight, the standard recovery method for American crewed capsules since Mercury.
Splashed-ink landscape
Splashed-ink landscape (Chinese pomo, 潑墨; Japanese hatsuboku) is a painting made by spattering or pouring ink so its accidental shapes suggest mountains, clouds, and water, arising in Tang China.
Splat! (album)
Splat! is Deep Purple's 24th studio album, released July 3, 2026 on earMUSIC, produced by Bob Ezrin, second album with guitarist Simon McBride, a 13-track concept album by Ian Gillan on humanity's end as transformation.
Splatoon
Splatoon (スプラトゥーン) is Nintendo's third-person shooter series starring Inklings who fight with colored ink, launched on Wii U in May 2015, followed by Splatoon 2 (2017), Splatoon 3 (2022), and the spin-off Splatoon Raiders (2026).
Splatoon 2
Splatoon 2 is a third-person shooter developed and published by Nintendo for the Switch, released in 2017 and the sequel to the 2015 Wii U game Splatoon.
Splatoon 3
Splatoon 3 is Nintendo's 2022 third-person ink shooter for Switch, set in Splatsville in the Splatlands. Features Turf War, Salmon Run Next Wave, Return of the Mammalians story mode, Deep Cut, three-team Splatfests, Side Order DLC, 10.67 million first-year sales, Metacritic 83.
Splatoon 3: Side Order
Splatoon 3: Side Order is Wave 2 of the Splatoon 3 Expansion Pass, a single-player roguelite DLC released February 22, 2024, in which Agent 8 climbs the Spire of Order using Palettes and Color Chips.
Splatoon Raiders
Splatoon Raiders (スプラトゥーン レイダース) is Nintendo's first Splatoon spinoff, a single-player-focused PvE action shooter released July 23, 2026, exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2, starring a Mechanic raiding the Spirhalite Islands with Deep Cut against Salmonids.
Splatter film
Splatter film (gore film, splatter movie): a horror subgenre concentrating on explicit gore and graphic violence rather than suspense. Originated with Herschell Gordon Lewis's Blood Feast (1963); term coined by George Romero for Dawn of the Dead (1978).
Splatterhouse (スプラッターハウス)
Splatterhouse (スプラッターハウス) is Namco's 1988 horror beat 'em up arcade game starring masked Rick rescuing Jennifer; spawned Wanpaku Graffiti, sequels 2 and 3, cancelled Splatterworld, and a 2010 reboot.
Splay nematic phase
The splay nematic phase is a nematic liquid crystal phase with a periodically splay-modulated director, giving a polar, antiferroelectric state reported in RM734 in 2018.
Splay tree
A splay tree, also called a self-adjusting binary search tree, is a search tree that splays each accessed node to the root, giving amortized O(log n) operations.
Spleen
Spleen: largest secondary lymphoid organ in adult humans, in the left upper quadrant; filters blood, recycles iron, stores 25-30% of RBCs, and mounts immune responses; human spleen lacks a rodent-style marginal zone.
Spleen filtration of nanoparticles
Spleen filtration of nanoparticles is the process by which the spleen traps or destroys intravenously injected nanoparticles; particles above 200 nm are captured, so designs stay near 100 nm or exploit the filter for immunotherapy.
Spleen imaging
Spleen imaging uses ultrasound, CT, MRI, and nuclear scintigraphy to measure the spleen and assess enlargement or focal abnormality, with ultrasound the most validated first-line test.
Spleen stiffness measurement
Spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) is a noninvasive elastography technique that measures spleen stiffness in kilopascals to assess portal hypertension, notably clinically significant portal hypertension, in chronic liver disease.
Spleen transplantation
Spleen transplantation (splenic autotransplantation) reimplants a patient's own splenic fragments, usually in the greater omentum, after splenectomy to regenerate splenic tissue and reduce overwhelming post-splenectomy infection risk; protection against OPSI remains unconfirmed.
Spleenworts in rock gardens and ferneries
Spleenworts in rock gardens and ferneries is the cultivation of small evergreen Asplenium ferns, including maidenhair spleenwort and hart's-tongue, which naturally grow on cliffs and walls and thrive in alkaline crevices with sharp drainage and shade.
Splenda
Splenda is an American brand of low- and zero-calorie sweeteners, launched in 1991 and owned by Heartland Food Products Group, whose original sucralose-based product is about 600 times sweeter than sugar.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass (1961) is Elia Kazan's drama from William Inge's Oscar-winning original screenplay, starring Natalie Wood and a debuting Warren Beatty as 1920s Kansas teens destroyed by sexual repression.
Splenectomy
Splenectomy is surgical removal of the spleen, done open, laparoscopic, or robotically for trauma, hematologic disorders, and splenomegaly; asplenic patients need lifelong pneumococcal, meningococcal, and Hib vaccination and antibiotic prophylaxis.
Splenic arteriovenous malformation
Splenic arteriovenous malformation (arteriovenous malformation of the spleen, ORPHA:693863) is an ultra-rare congenital shunt between the splenic artery and splenic vein at the splenic hilum, causing portal hypertension, splenic artery aneurysms, hemorrhage, and treated by embolization or splenectomy.
Splenic cyst
A splenic cyst is a fluid-filled cavity in the spleen, classified as a true epithelial-lined cyst, a pseudocyst, or a parasitic hydatid cyst; about 75% are pseudocysts, most following abdominal trauma.
Splenic diffuse red pulp lymphoma
Splenic diffuse red pulp lymphoma (SDRPL) is a rare, indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma of small B cells infiltrating the splenic red pulp, typically causing massive splenomegaly.
Splenic infarction
Splenic infarction: death of spleen tissue from occlusion of the splenic artery or its branches. Also called splenic infarct. Causes include cardioembolism, hematologic disease, malignancy, sepsis; diagnosed by contrast-enhanced CT; usually managed conservatively.
Splenic injury
Splenic injury: trauma to the spleen, the most commonly injured organ in blunt abdominal trauma. Also called splenic trauma; treated by nonoperative management, embolization, or splenectomy, with NOM failure under 10% overall.