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17 Cards in this Set
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What is lymph and what is it composed of |
A thin watery fluid composed of intercellular fluid, water, digested nutrients, salts, hormones, oxygen, carbon dioxide, lymphocytes and metabolic wastes such as urea |
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Small open ended lymph vessels called ____pick up___at tissues throughout the body. They joined together to form larger____ which pass through____ |
Lymphatic capillaries, lymph, lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes |
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What keeps the lymph flowing in a one-way direction while it is in the lymphatic vessels |
Valves |
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What are lacteals what do they do |
They are specialized lymphatic capillaries and they pick up digested fats or lipids |
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Name for substances that are filtered from the lymph while it is in the lymph node |
Carbon, cancer cells, pathogens, dead blood cells |
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Name two things produced by the lymph tissue in the lymph nodes |
Lymphocyte, antibiotics |
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Name the two lymphatic ducts in the areas they drain |
Right lymphatic duct drains right side of head, neck, right arm and right chest Thoracic duct drains the rest of body |
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What is the cisterni chyli where is it located |
An enlarged pouch like structure at the start of the thoracic duct |
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The purified lymph, with lymphocyte and antibodies added, returns to the_____ when it leaves the lymphatic ducks. The right lymphatic duct empties the purified lymph into the _____, and the thoracic duct empties into the____ |
Bloodstream, right subclavian vein, left subclavian vein |
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List the three types of tonsils and stay where they're located |
Palatine: each side of the soft palate Pharyngeal: upper part of the throat (nasopharynx) Lingual: back of tongue |
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List the four functions of the spleen |
• produces the leukocytes and anti-bodies • destroys old erythrocytes •stores erythrocytes to release into the bloodstream if excess bleeding occurs • destroys thrombocytes |
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What is the thymus and what happens to at puberty |
A mass of lymph tissue, wastes away |
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Inflammation or infection of the lymph nodes or glands |
Adenitis |
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Chronic malignant condition with enlargement of lymph nodes |
Hodgkin's disease |
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Enlargement of the spleen |
Splenomegaly |
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Inflammation of the tonsils |
Tonsillitis |
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Inflammation of the lymphatic vessels |
Lymphangitis |
