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| neck, armpits, groin, etc |
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| Lymphatic System Functions |
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Fluid Recovery Immunity Lipid Absorption
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Lymphatic System Functions: Fluid Recovery |
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| What isn't reabsorbed back into vessels goes to lymph |
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Lymph System Functions: Immunity |
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Lyphnodes are filters, that is why they swell, they filter the blood and remove Lymphocytes (WBC) stay in lymphatic system and fights what is filtered |
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Lymphatic System Functions: Lipid Absorption |
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Lipid not water soluble, can't travel in the blood well because high water concentration Lymphatic system gets fat from small intestine to the liver -- this is done by specialized lymph vessels = lacteals that help digest fat |
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| Components of Lymphatic System |
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Lymph - tissue fluid Lymphatic Vessels - carry lymph around body Lymphatic Tissues - groups of lymphocytes and macrophages that populate organs in body Lymphatic Organs - thymus, lymphnodes, tonsils, spleen |
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All over body, can contact almost any cell More like veins - have valves Closed on 1 end More porous that capillaries - pores larger, get the junk and cells through
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Lymph capillaries --> Collecting vessels --> Lymphatic Trunk (drain sections of body, 6 of them) --> Collecting Ducts (largest, example thoracic duct) --> Subclavian Veins --> All goes back to bloodstream after this sequence of filters |
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