The Lymphatic System

Question 1

The two subdivisions of the circulatory system are these…

Answer 1

What are the blood circulatory system and the lymphatic system?

Question 2

This system helps maintain fluid balance and helps with the body’s internal immunity and is containing tissues, like tonsils, spleen, and thymus gland‘s

Answer 2

What is the lymphatic system?

Question 3

This clear, yellow watery fluid is similar to plasma, but does not contain a lot of large proteins

Answer 3

What is lymph?

Question 4

The lymph contains this type of corpuscles

Answer 4

What is a lymphocyte?

Question 5

These oval-shaped structures are located along the entire length of the lymph vessel

Answer 5

What are lymph nodes?

Question 6

The function of these is to act as filters to remove bacteria and other foreign bodies, including malignant cells

Answer 6

What are lymph nodes?

Question 7

Lymph vessels, begin as these, which are known to be the smallest of the lymph vessels

Answer 7

What are lymph capillaries?

Question 8

These resemble the structure of veins, and that they have the same three layers, but they have thinner walls with more valves

Answer 8

What are lymph vessels

Question 9

Lymph vessels will eventually drain into these…

Answer 9

What are the right and left lymphatic ducts

Question 10

These ducts measures about a half an inch long and drains lymph from the right side of the head, neck, chest and entire upper extremity on the right side

Answer 10

What is the right lymphatic duct?

Question 11

This duct returns lymph to the cardiovascular system via the right subclavian vein.

Answer 11

What is the right lymphatic duct?

Question 12

This duct measures 15 to 18 inches long and begins as the cisterna chiyli (a dilation located anterior to Lumbar 2)

Answer 12

What is the left lymphatic duct a.k.a. thoracic duct

Question 13

This duct drains from the left side of the head neck, chest upper left extremities in the entire body below the ribs

Answer 13

What is the left lymphatic duct?

Question 14

This duct returns lymph to the cardiovascular system via the left subclavian vein…

Answer 14

What is the left lymphatic duct?

Question 15

These are small ducts that bring lymph and dietary lipids from the villi of the small intestines to the cisterna chyli….

Answer 15

What are lacteals?

Question 16

The presence of these give lymphs in the small intestines, a milky, white color

Answer 16

What are dietary lipids?

Question 17

The milky white lymph in the small intestines are called this

Answer 17

What is chyle a.k.a. chyli

Question 18

Lymph found in all other areas outside the small intestines are known to be what color

Answer 18

What is clear or a yellow color?

Question 19

Finger like projections found along the mucosal wall of the small intestines are known as what

Answer 19

What are villi

Question 20

The function of villi in the small intestines is this

Answer 20

To increase the absorption area

Question 21

Aggregations of lymph nodes located along the entire length of the small intestines

Answer 21

What is Peyer’s patches?

Question 22

The most numerous of the Peyer patches are found on this area of the small intestines

Answer 22

What is the ileum?

Question 23

These are Masses of the lympathic tissue embedded in the mucus membrane within the oral cavity and the nasopharynx

Answer 23

What are tonsils?

Question 24

The function of this mass of lymphatic tissue is to produce lymphocytes and filtered bacteria

Answer 24

What are tonsils?

Question 25

There are two types of paired tonsils, and one single tonsil. What are their names? PLA

Answer 25

What is the palatine tonsil, the lingual tonsil, and the pharyngeal tonsil a.k.a. Adenoid tonsil…

Question 26

This lymph organ measures about 5 inches in length and is located in the left hypochondriac region between the stomach and the diaphragm lateral to the liver.

Answer 26

What is the spleen?

Question 27

This lymph organ is the largest mass of lymphatic tissue, and in an emergency, stores up to a cup of blood that it will be squeezed out in force into circulation if supply runs low

Answer 27

What is the spleen?

Question 28

This lymph gland is bi-lobed, which means it has two lobes or two sections, and is known to produce lymphocytes…

Answer 28

What is the thymus gland?

Question 29

This lymph gland is located in the upper anterior part of the thoracic cavity behind the sternum, and between the lungs

Answer 29

What is the thymus gland?

Question 30

This 1. acts as a filter to protect the body from invasion of bacteria, 2. aids in the formation of lymphocytes 3. returns filter lymph to the bloodstream and 4. restore its blood via the spleen

Answer 30

What are the four main functions of the lymphatic system?