Unit 6 Lt 2 Flashcards
1
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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
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
3
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Thymus
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Works in early childhood
- maturation and development
- white blood cells
4
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Tonsils
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- masses of lymphnoid tissue
- defense from exterior bacteria
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
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
7
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Afferent lymph vessels
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Carry blood to lymph nodes
8
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Efferent
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Carry ;ymph out of lymph nodes
9
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