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What filtering Lymph Organ?
The lymph nodes filter lymph.
What is the small filtering structures to which afferent lymph vessels carry lymph?
Lymph nodes
What are small oval structures that occur in clusters along the paths of the lymph vessels?
The small oval structures that cluster along the lymph vessels are called lymph nodes. The nodes that can be palpated are the cervical, axillary and inguinal nodes.
What is a Bean shaped structures of the lymph system?
a bean-shaped structure of the lymph system is called the lymph nodes.
What are the two major structures of the lymphatic system?
The lymphatic system includes organs and cells that filter lymph and blood and destroy foreign microorganisms. Lymph leaks out of capillaries to bathe body cells and circulates among tissue cells and the heart. Organs of the lymphatic system contain lymphatic tissue, Lymphocytes, a few other cell types, and connective tissue.
What ar lymph nodes?
Small, rounded structures along the small vessels of the lymphatic system that are part of the immune system. Lymph nodes are tiny spherical structures the size of a pin head in groups into which the lymphatic vessels drain through afferent vessels. The nodes filter the lymph, storing and destroying microorganisms by the production of lymphocytes. Once filtered the lymph leaves the node through the efferent lymph vessel. Popliteal, inguinal, iliac, abdominal, axillary, cubital and cervical are examples of groups of lymph nodes.
Within which structures in humans are bacteria and dead cells removed from lymph?
Lymph Nodes
Do lymph nodes filter lymph?
lymph capillary Lymph fluid is filtered in lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are along lymph vessels which that run along blood vessels. Lymph vessels draw in interstitial fluid (fluid between cells) and it them becomes lymph fluid. Lymph nodules are in connective tissue in place of high traffic and does not function as a filter because it's not along a lymph vessel.
What is a lymphatic vessel?
In anatomy, lymph vessels are thin walled, valved structures that carry lymph.
Which organ is part of the lymphatic system?
spleen, tonsils, lymph nodes, heart, thymus,
What are two structures that are shared by the blood and the lymphatic system?
These two structures are the lymph nodes and the spleen.
Which structures attach lymph capillaries to surrounding cells?
anchoring filaments
