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14 Cards in this Set
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Known as the "other" circulatory system made up of fluid with no blood
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Lymphatic System
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comes out from the capillary pores that carry nutrients needed by other cells of that tissue/organ
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Extracellualar Fluid
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Why does Extracellular Fluid bathes the organ with glucose, electrolytes?
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To promote cellular metabolism
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What happens when cells finish with extracellular fluid?
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They dump their waste into it
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What picks up the extracellular fluid to recycle it (now called lymph)?
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The Lymph System
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What is also picked up, along with the lymph?
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cellular debris from injury or infection (i.e. excretions from phagocytosis)
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Why is lymph carried to the nearest node?
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To purify the fluid like a big screen
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What do multiple afferent vessels do?
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bring lymph in
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What do efferent vessels do?
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carries fluid out
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How do fluids move through the Lymph system?
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By muscles milking it through
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Clusters of cells that purify lymph
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Lymph Node
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What cells do lymph nodes house?
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*Macrophages
*Lymphocytes (B and T-Cells) |
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What is it called when products of inflammation/infection flow through , the node enlarges
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Lymphadenopathy
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*These will usually be hard and fixed and are usually not tender
*Cancer cells can perforate and grow into the surrounding tissue |
Nodes can trap cancer
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