Lymphatic Organs
This largest lymphatic organ filters blood and removes old red blood cells.
What is the Spleen?
These tubes transport lymph throughout the body.
What are Lymphatic vessels?
The name of the specialized lymphatic capillaries found in the small intestine.
What are Lacteals?
The body's ability to resist infection and disease.
What is Immunity?
The bean-shaped structures that are distributed along lymphatic vessels to filter the lymph.
What are Lymph nodes?
These lymphoid tissues in the pharynx are positioned to trap ingested and inhaled pathogens.
These lymphoid tissues in the pharynx are positioned to trap ingested and inhaled pathogens.
This clear, watery fluid circulates throughout the system and is derived from interstitial fluid.
What is Lymph?
These capillaries absorb dietary fats and fat-soluble vitamins during digestion.
What are Lacteals?
This is the kind of cell, such as T-cells, that mature in the thymus and reside in the lymph nodes.
What is a Lymphocyte?
This organ filters the blood, rather than the lymph.
What is the Spleen?
This gland is where T-lymphocytes mature, making it crucial for adaptive immunity.
What is the Thymus?
This major vessel drains lymph from the right upper arm and the right side of the head and chest.
What is the Right lymphatic duct?
This process requires the lymphatic system to pick up excess fluid from the tissues to maintain homeostasis.
What is Fluid Balance (or Drainage)?
The process where immune cells use the spleen and lymph nodes to monitor the body for threats.
What is Immune Surveillance?
In addition to filtering, the Tonsils are strategically placed to do this to pathogens entering the mouth or nose.
What is Trap (or Intercept)?
This entire system is responsible for fluid balance, fat absorption, and immune defense.
What is the Lymphatic System?
After filtering through the lymph nodes, this massive vessel drains the majority of the body's lymph into the left subclavian vein.
What is the Thoracic duct?
Once collected by the lymphatic system, interstitial fluid is called this.
What is Lymph?
T-cells, which are crucial for this type of long-lasting immunity, mature in the thymus.
What is Adaptive Immunity?
These vessels and the nodes they contain act as a sequential filtering system for tissue fluid before it returns to the blood.
What are Lymphatic vessels?
This is the large storage sac that collects lymph from the lower body and digestive tract, located at the base of the thoracic duct.
What is the Cisterna?
The movement of fluid from the interstitial space back toward the heart is the main function of this system.
What is the Lymphatic System?
The digestive material absorbed by the lacteals that gives the lymph a milky-white appearance.
What is Chyle (or Digested Fats)?
Trapping foreign substances like bacteria and cancer cells is the primary immune function of these small organs.
What are Lymph Nodes?
When pathogens or cancerous cells are trapped in the lymph nodes, they can cause the nodes to become visibly swollen, a condition known as this.
What is Lymphadenopathy (or Swollen Glands)?