Unit 6 Lt 2 Flashcards

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Function of Lympathic system

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Protect from disease causing stuff, back up transport system for things that wont fit in blood vessels

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2
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Spleen

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Located in upder left abdoman

  • filters blood, destroys worn out RBCs and salvages iron found in hemoglobin
  • rich blood supply
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3
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Thymus

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Works in early childhood

  • maturation and development
  • white blood cells
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4
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Tonsils

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  • masses of lymphnoid tissue
  • defense from exterior bacteria
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5
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Lymph

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  • excess fluid that forms as a result of blood plasma filtering out of the blood capillaries into the intestinal spaces between cells
  • enters via lymph vessels and can be returned to blood
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6
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Lymph nodes

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  • filter lymph before reentering blood
  • immune defense and white blood cell formation
  • filter out bacteria from lymph
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7
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Afferent lymph vessels

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Carry blood to lymph nodes

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8
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Efferent

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Carry ;ymph out of lymph nodes

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