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What is the name of the small vessels located in the liver spleen and bone marrow?
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What system of the body produces blood?
Bone marrow in an adult, bone marrow and spleen in an infant, spleen and liver in a fetus.
What send dead corpuscles to the marrow for recycling?
the liver or spleen
True or false when erythrocytes are no longer useful they are destroyed by macrophages in the spleen liver and bone marrow?
True. When erythrocytes are no longer useful they are destroyed by macrophages in the spleen liver and bone marrow.
Where are red blood cells made and destroyed?
Made in bone marrow and destroyed in the spleen
What is the site of fetal hematopoiesis?
Predominantly in the fetal liver before moving to the spleen and finally the bone marrow.
Where are the liver and spleen located?
Both are in the abdomen. The liver is up under the right ribs and the spleen is under the left ribs.
What happens when erythrocytes are no longer useful?
When erythrocytes are no longer useful they are destroyed by macrophages in the spleen, liver, and bone marrow.
A substance that forms red blood cells and word parts?
RBC are formed from the red bone marrow,liver and spleen.
Where red blood cells are made?
Red blood cell are made in the red bone marrow.
Where do red blood cells go after they live for 120 days?
Red blood cells then go to the liver, spleen, and bone marrow.
What are the organs of the lymphatic system other than lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes are?
Thymus gland, the liver, the spleen, and the tonsils.
Where is the old red blood cells destroyed?
Red blood cells have a life span of about 120 days. They are formed in the bone marrow and destroyed by the reticuloendothelial cells present in spleen, liver, lymph nodes, brain, the heart or even in the muscles. Spleen is the major site of their destruction.
