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| Returns fluids that have leaked from the blood vascular system back to the blood. |
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| the fluid contained in lymphatic vessels |
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| lymphoid organs and tissues |
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| provide structural basis of the immune system |
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| A special set of lymphatic capillaries that transport absorbed fat from the small intestine to the bloodstream. |
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| Fatty lymph that drains from the fingerlike villi of the intestinal mucosa |
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| drains lymph from the right upper limb and the right side of the head and thorax |
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| receives lymph from the rest of the body, other than from the right upper limb and the right side of the head and thorax |
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| collects lymph from the two large lumbar trunks that drain the lower limbs and form the intestinal trunk that drains the digestive organs. |
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| the main warriors of the immune system, arise in red bone marrow. Eventually mature in B-cells and T-cells |
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| daughter cells that secrete antibodies into the blood |
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| play a role in body protection and the immune response by phagocytizing foreign substances and by helping to activate T cells. |
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| capture antigens and bring them back to the lymph nodes |
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| fibroblast-like cells that produce the reticular fiber stroma |
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| the network that supports the other cell types in lymphoid organs and tissues |
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| houses and provides a proliferation site for lymphocytes, furnishes an ideal surveillance vantage point for lymphocytes and macrophages |
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| reticular connective tissues |
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| dominates all the lymphoid organs except the thymus |
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| a loose arrangement of lymphoid cells and some reticular fibers; is found in virtually every body organ |
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| solid spherical bodies consisting of tightly packed lymphoid cells and reticular fibers |
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| cluster along the lymphatic vessels of the body |
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