this tissue has the ability to remove substances, such as cancer cells, disease-causing organisms, and dead blood cells found in the blood
What is lymph nodes?
100
an infection of the tonsils caused by the large number of microorganisms
What is tonsillitis?
100
The upper left side of the abdomen.
What is the spleen?
200
walled passageways that empty into the superior vena cava
What is lymphatic ducts?
200
these empty into the superior vena cava, and the lymph joins the blood as it enters the right atrium
What is lymphatic ducts
200
A disease that is a form of cancer affecting lymph nodes.
What is Hodgkins Disease?
200
a long-term autoimmune disorder that may affect the skin, joints, kidneys, brain, and other organs. Also affects connective tissue.
What is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?
200
The lymphatic system includes 500 to 700 very small organs scatter throughout the body. The organs that are used to help remove waste products for the cells?
What is lymph nodes.
300
located in the LUQ
What is the spleen?
300
this organ filters the blood instead of lymph fluid
What is a spleen?
300
Disorder that occurs when the body doesn not recognize its own tissue.
What is Autoimmune?
300
Disease which destroys the thyroid gland.
What is Hashimoto's disease?
300
The spleen helps to fight infections by producing white blood cells. When the body detects that it is being invaded by a disease, the spleen releases the WBCs to fight the foreign attackers. Those WBC are called _____
What is lymphocytes?
400
straw-colored fluid that consists of water, waste products, digested nutrients, hormones, salts, and lymphocytes
What is lymph?
400
Infection of the tonsils
What is Tonsilitis?
400
In addition to maturing lymphocyes, the thymus produces a hormone called thymosin. The one function of this hormone would be ___________
What is to promote lymphocyte production in other lymphatic organs?
500
special type of WBC
what is lymphocytes
500
this network serves to defend against infection, maintain fluid balance, and remove waste products
What is the lymphatic system?
500
A virus that results in failure of the body's immune system.
What is AIDS?
500
The vessels that connect the lymph nodes together contain a clear fluid called lymph. The lymph circulates throughout the body and helps to get rid off extra fluid the body produces. The person that publish a book accurately explaining how the lymphatic system works.