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Question 1

What happens as blood pushes against the capillary walls?

Answer 1

Fluid is forced out of the capillaries

Question 2

The fluid pushed out of capillaries contains

Answer 2

Water, ions, AA, glucose, and small proteins

Question 3

What happens as water is being pushed out of the capillaries?

Answer 3

The solute concentration of capillaries at downstream end goes up

Question 4

What brings water back into the capillary?

Answer 4

The increased solute concentration in the capillary

Question 5

How are the cells in lymph capillaries?

Answer 5

Overlapping

Question 6

What happens as pressure increases in interstitial space?

Answer 6

Fluid is forced into the capillary

Question 7

Lymph capillaries have a

Answer 7

Blunt end

Question 8

Fluid accumulates into

Answer 8

Lymph vessels

Question 9

How much of water is in interstitial fluid?

Answer 9

3L

Question 10

Cells that make up lymph capillaries are

Answer 10

Overlapping

Question 11

What happens as tension increases in interstitial space?

Answer 11

Fluid is forced into capillary

Question 12

Lymph is made of

Answer 12

Components of blood plasma

Question 13

What dumps lymph back into the veins?

Answer 13

Lymph ducts

Question 14

Lymph vessels have smooth muscle cells which

Answer 14

Contract and push fluid forward

Question 15

What feed into the Vena Cava?

Answer 15

Subclavian veins

Question 16

Where does lymph dump back?

Answer 16

In the subclavian veins

Question 17

What facilitates lymph movement?

Answer 17

• Location of return
• Valves along lymph vessels
• Muscle contraction

Question 18

What are the types of muscle contraction that assist in lymph movement?

Answer 18

• Smooth muscle found in the walls of the lymph vessels

- Skeletal muscle contraction putting pressure on vessels

Question 19

Lymphedema is when there is

Answer 19

Blockage of lymph vessel

Question 20

Lymphedema may be due to

Answer 20

• Vessel damage
• Tumor
• Parasite

Question 21

Primary function of lymph vessels is

Answer 21

Returning fluid back to the heart

Question 22

What is the function of Primary Structures?

Answer 22

They allow for the formation and maturation of lymphocytes like T cells and B cells

Question 23

What examples of the Primary structures?

Answer 23

Thymus and Red Bone marrow

Question 24

The Red Bone Marrow is the site of

Answer 24

Hematopoiesis and B-cell maturation

Question 25

The Thymus is the site of

Answer 25

T-cell maturation

Question 26

What is the function of the Secondary Structures?

Answer 26

They house immune cells and active an immune response

Question 27

What examples of the secondary structures?

Answer 27

• Lymph nodes
• Thalamus
• Tonsils
• Spleen
• MALT