The removal of aged and damaged red blood cells.
Blood is filtered by the spleen in the adult lymphatic system. The spleen helps to remove old or damaged red blood cells, store blood, and produce white blood cells for the immune response.
The spleen is the largest organ of the Lymphatic system.
In the marrow cavity of an adult humerus, you would typically find yellow bone marrow, which consists mostly of adipose tissue. Yellow bone marrow stores fat and does not actively produce blood cells unless needed in times of severe blood loss or specific medical conditions.
Well, first, make sure that you know that there is both Fatty substance and bone marrow. The bone marrow makes Red blood cells, as well as many others. The fatty substances are for support, shock absorbtion, and just as a place to store excess energy, in the form of fat.
The size and weight of the spleen are liable to very extreme variations at different periods of life, in different individuals, and in the same individual under different conditions. In the adult it is usually about 12 cm. in length, 7 cm. in breadth, and 3 or 4 cm. in thickness, and weighs about 200 grams. At birth its weight, in proportion to the entire body, is almost equal to what is observed in the adult, being as 1 to 350; while in the adult it varies from 1 to 320 and 400. In old age the organ not only diminishes in weight, but decreases considerably in proportion to the entire body, being as 1 to 700. The size of the spleen is increased during and after digestion, and varies according to the state of nutrition of the body, being large in highly fed, and small in starved animals. In malarial fever it becomes much enlarged, weighing occasionally as much as 9 kilos.
Bone marrow in an adult, bone marrow and spleen in an infant, spleen and liver in a fetus.
the human spleen is about4 inches long.
Red bone marrow makes red blood cells and this is found in all infant and children's bones. In adults most of the red marrow has been replaced with yellow marrow which is fat tissue. Bones that are ossified have fully formed and are adult bones.
The average weight of a spleen in an adult human is around 200-300 grams.
Spleen
Bone marrow
Blood is filtered by the spleen in the adult lymphatic system. The spleen helps to remove old or damaged red blood cells, store blood, and produce white blood cells for the immune response.
A healthy adult human spleen typically weighs around 150-200 grams.
All white blood cells go through the spleen at least 40 times a day to get cleaned and restored.
The spleen is the largest organ of the Lymphatic system.
yellow marrow cavity
the yellow marrow cavity