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The Lymphatic And Immune System: Your Defense System Flashcards

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1
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The lymphatic system is both the ?

A

Transport system and barracks of the immune system

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What is the first function of the lymphatic system?

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Recycling fluids lost from the cardiovascular system

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what is the second function of the lymphatic system?

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Transporting pathogens to the lymph nodes where they can be destroyed

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What is the third function of the lymphatic system?

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Storage and maturation of some types of white blood cells

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What is the 4th function of the lymphatic system?

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Absorption of glycerol and fatty acids from food you eat

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The smallest pipes of the lymphatic system that run parallel to your blood capillaries is called?

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Lymph capillaries

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Lymph capillaries form a network __?

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Between cells of connective tissues

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The fluid filing the lymph capillaries is called?

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Lymphatic fluid, or lymph

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What is the description of lymph nodes?

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Small, encapsulated bodies divided into sections

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Nodes consist of sections of lymphatic tissue contains WBCs known as?

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Lymphocytes

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What is the function of Lymph nodes?

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Filter and destroy pathogens using WBCs

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Lymphatic vessels exiting lymph nodes empty into one or several lymphatic trunks that?

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Empty into one of two collecting ducts

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All trunks below the heart and to the left of the heart empty into the ?

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Thoracic duct (large duct)

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Trunks from the upper right quadrant of the body empty into the ?

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Right lymphatic duct (small duct)

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The spleen is a spongy organ in the upper quadrant of the abdomen that functions as?

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Filtering your blood

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The spleen functions to ?

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Remove and destroy old, damaged, or fragile RBCs

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The spleen also filters pathogens from the blood stream and?

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Destroys them like the lymph node

18
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_____ is a soft organ located between the aortic arch and sternum?

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The thymus

19
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The thymus is packed with lymphocytes, which mature into a type of WBC called a?

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T-lymphocyte

20
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The thymus secretes a hormone that stimulates ?

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Maturation of the T-lymphocyte in lymph nodes

21
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What is stages of Metastasized cancer?

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Stage 1: has not spread from origin
Stage 2: has spread to nearby tissue
Stage 3: has spread to nearby lymph nodes
Stage 4: spread to distant locations and is often terminal

22
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What are some common disorders of the immune system?

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Immunodeficiency disorders
Autoimmune disorders
Hypersensitivity reactions

23
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In the immunodeficiency disorder the immune system doesn’t ?

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Respond properly to invasion, and doesn’t prevent infection

24
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In the immunodeficiency disorder, minor. Infections can be ?

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Fatal, the person gets ill very easily and recovers slowly

25
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What are some causes of immunodeficiency?

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Chemicals, viruses, genetics, radiation exposure, or even medications

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Autoimmune disorders occur when the?

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Immune system attacks some part of the body

27
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In the autoimmune disorder for some reason the body fails to?

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Recognize its own tissues and destroys them

28
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The autoimmune disorder of the rheumatoid arthritis deals with the ?

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Joint linings

29
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The autoimmune disorder of multiple sclerosis deals with ?

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Myelin sheath in CNS, starting in the spinal cord

30
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The autoimmune disorder of type 1 diabetes deals with?

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Beta cells in pancreas-insulin

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The autoimmune disorder of myasthenia gravis deals with

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Acetylcholine receptors in skeletal muscle

32
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The autoimmune Hashimoto disease deals with?

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Thyroid gland progressively destroyed

33
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The autoimmune Addison’s disease deals with?

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Adrenal gland

34
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Hypersensitivity reactions, or allergies, occur when your immune system mounts an overactive response to a?

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Foreign antigen, often treating a harmless antigen like an invading pathogen

35
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Local hypersensitivity reactions, like hay fever or hives are?

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Generally mild and not life threatening

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Systematic hypersensitivity reactions, or anaphylaxis, are?

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Life threatening because WBCs release immune stimulating chemicals throughout your body causing vasodilation leading to dangerous low blood pressure and heart failure

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The immune system must ignore self-antigens (the body’s antigens) and respond to?

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Non-self antigens (foreign cells)

38
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Lymph nodes are actually ?

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Filters

39
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More than 2/3 of your lymphatic system drains into the ?

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Thoracic duct

40
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The large, spongy lymphatic organ in the LUQ of the abdomen is the?

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Spleen

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