function
the interstitial fluid that enters lymphatic capillaries will contain some waste materials.
What is waste material transport?
Inflammation or infection of lymph nodes
What is a adenitits?
white blood cells
What are lymphocytes?
A series of vessels or ducts that carry excess tissue fluid.
What is the lymphatic system?
The Lymphatic system helps the body fight ______.
What are infections?
Ducts, lymph vessels, nodes, and organs that carries lymph.
What is the system made of?
Chronic disease of lymph nodes
What is Hodgkins disease
A fluid that forms when plasma diffuses though tissue spaces, composed of water,lymphocytes,waste, nutrients, hormones,oxygen.
What is lymph?
Drain fluid from specific areas of the body.
What are lymph vessels?
Lymph capillaries carry lymph into larger vessels called ________ vessels.
What are lymphatic vessels?
What is function of lymphatic system
Remove waste and excess fluid from tissues.
Enlargement of the spleen
What is splenomegaly?
A fluid that leaks out of capillaries and cleans body tissues.
What is interstitial fluid?
Compared to plasma, ____ is made up of more water, sugar and electrolytes
What is lymph
The _______ is the largest organ in the lymphatic system.
What is the spleen?
Why does the thymus get water after puberty?
SPLEEEEEEEEEN TAKES OVER!!!!!!!!!
Inflammation or infection of the tonsils.
What is a tonsillitis?
Storage for clean lymph
What is cisterna chyli?
what are the three pairs of tonsils?
What are palatine,lingual,pharyngeal?
_____ allow body movements to propel lymph toward the heart.
What are valves?
Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels
What is Lymphangitis?
Short tube that receives all purified lymph from the right side of the neck
What is right lymphatic duct?
Picked up as lymph vessels pass through a lymph node. Fights infections.
What are lymphocytes?
______ ________ is how cells receive some of the nutrients carried by plasma.
What is plasma diffusion.