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Lymphatic System (Consists Of (lymphatic ducts, lymph tissue, spleen,…
Lymphatic System
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Lymph Nodes
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lymph vessels bring lymph to the node, then the node filters the lymph and removes carbon, cancer cells, pathogens, and dead blood cells
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clean/purified lymph then leaves the lymph node by a single lymphatic vessel and moves on to join larger vessels - will eventually drain into one of the lymphatic ducts
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Thymus
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early in life it produces antibodies and manufactures lymphocytes to fight infection - function is taken over by the lymph nodes after it atrophies
Adenitis
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fever, swollen painful nodes
anttibiotics, warm moist compressions
Lymphangitis
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red streak extending up leg from source of infection, fever, chills, and pain/tenderness
antibiotics, rest, elevation of affected part, and or warm/moist compressions
Tonsillitis
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throat pain, dysphagia, fever, yellow or white spots on tonsils, swollen lymph nodes
antibiotics, warm throat irrigations
Function
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removes waste and excess fluid from body tissue, works on immunity and lipid transportation
Lymph
a thin, watery fluid composed of intercellular or interstitial fluid
made of water, digested nutrients, salts, hormones, O, CO2, lymphocytes, and metabolic wastes
Lymphatic vessels
small, open ended lymph vessels act like a drainpipe - called lymphatic capillaries
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Lymphatic Ducts
Right Thoracic Duct
short tube that receives all the purified lymph from the right side of the head and neck, the right chest, and the right arm
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Spleen
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produces leukocytes and antibodies, destroys old erythrocytes, destroys thrombocytes and filters metabolites and wastes from body tissue
Hodgkin's Disease
chronic, malignant disease of the lymph nodes - most common form of lymphoma
painless swelling of the nodes, fever, night sweats, weight loss, fatigue and pruritus
Splenomegaly
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swelling, abdominal pain, anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia