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RBMS Lymphatic
Lymphatic System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lymphatic System | is a network of tubes and organs alongside your blood vessels. That helps with fluids and fighting diseases |
| Lymph | clear fluid surrounding cells, mostly leaked from blood |
| lymphatic vessels | tiny tubes that soak up lymph, take it to lymph nodes, then to veins |
| Lymph nodes | small swellings in lymph vessels all over body that filter lymph & kill germs |
| tonsils | lymphatic tissues in the back of mouth that store White blood cells for fighting infections. |
| thymus | organ in chest that produces WBCs |
| spleen | lymph organ that recycles RBCs, stores blood, and holds WBCs for germ-killing. |