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What is the difference between the lymph duct and the thoracic duct?
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Which duct receives lymph from most part of the body?
The thoracic duct collects most of the lymph from the body.
What is the role of thoracic duct?
The main function of the thoracic duct is to allow lymph transport that is caused by breathing. It also prevents blood from flowing into the ducts.
What happens at the thoracic duct?
It receives lymph.
Most of the lymph of the body drains into this large duct?
Thoracic duct.
What does the thoracic duct do?
Like the arteries and veins which carry blood, the thoracic duct is a vessel belonging to the lymphatic system which transports the lymph from the body and drains in the veins of the neck on the left side
What vessel does lymph from the left arm return to the heart through?
Thoracic duct
Large lymph vessels in the chest that drains lymph from the lower part and left side of the body above the diaphragm?
right lymphatic duct
The vast majority of the bodys lymph is drained by the?
Thoracic duct
The left subclavian vein receives lymph from?
Thoracic duct
What do the the thoracic do?
The thoracic duct serves as a duct which lymph drains into which then drains into the venous system before returning to the heart to be cleansed and recirculated.
What is the main collecting duct in the lymphatic system?
The main collecting duct for the lymphatic system is the thoracic duct located alongside the aorta in the thoracic region of the body. Most lower body lymph (lymph from the front and back of both legs and the abdominal area) migrate to the thoracic duct then from the duct, lymph dumps into the left subclavian vein. The lymph then becomes part of the vascular system and the lymphatic process starts all over again.
Most of the lymph returns to the venous circulation by way of the?
Thoracic duct
