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| Lymphatic and Immunity System |
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| returns excess tissue fluid to the blood, absorbs fats from the digestive system |
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| Protect body from invaders once they have gotten past the skin & mucus membranes, Cleans up damaged cells, Protects against cancer |
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| Many have valves, like veins |
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| Located near areas that are open to the outside world (neck, groin) and places where limbs attach to the torso (axillae and groin) and throughout the mesentery of the small and large intestines |
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| dense areas in the cortex that have actively dividing macrophages and lymphocytes |
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| loose areas in the medulla which are like a maze the lymph fluid must go through to get from afferent vessels to (usually a single) efferent vessel. |
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Left drains most of the body including all of the digestive drainage
Right drains right side of head, right chest wall, shoulder and arm only |
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| located dorsolateral to stomach, Filters blood instead of lymph |
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| stores and releases red blood cells |
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| just superior to heart, Progenitor cells from bone marrow settle here and can divide to produce T-lymphocytes |
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| Obtains oxygen from the environment, Excretion of carbon dioxide waste, With the urinary and circulatory systems; help control pH |
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Stratified squamous epithelium (not keratinized)
Smell receptors in superior part |
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nasal conchae covered by nasal epithelium
Openings to sinuses |
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Pharyngeal tonsils
Opening to Auditory tube |
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Thyroid and Cricoid cartilages: hyaline cartilage
Dense regular CT membrane between them : tracheotomy |
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| elastic cartilage covered with a mucus membrane |
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| some are hyaline and others are elastic cartilage |
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