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What is the relationship between the lymph vessels and blood vessels?
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∙ 15y ago
As blood passes through capillaries, oxygen and nutrients can diffuse out of these tiny blood vessels and into our surrounding body cells. Waste products might include lactic acid and carbon dioxide. Some of these waste materials diffuse back into the bloodstream, but most of it is taken up into the lymphatic system. The simple analogy is that the lymph system is our body's binmen.
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∙ 12y agoThe lymphatic system is essentially a drainage system. There are two ways in which tissue fluid can re-enter the bloodstream, namely a small percentage returns directly to the blood system on the venous side of the capillary blood vessels and most of the tissue fluid is returned via the lymph vessels. The walls of the lymph caplllaries are composed of a single layer of endothelium. Lymph capillaries have a larger diameter than blood capillaries and the endothelial layer is more permeable, allowing water, dissolved substances and large particles to diffuse through them.
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∙ 15y agoLympph nodes collect the excess blood in the body, filter it, and fight pathogens. Blood is the red stuff that runs through your veins and help keep your body going.
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∙ 14y agohere not the same
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Difference between blood and lymph?
Lymph is mainly leakage from blood vessels, thus it is almost identical EXCEPT for the absence of Red Blood cells.
What is difference between serum and lymph?
Serum is in the blood vessels (circulating blood). Lymph is the plasma that diffuses through the arteries (used to be part of the blood) into the lymph system. Once it flows through the lymph system, it will rejoin with blood through veins.
What organs are found in the lymphatic system?
Lymph vessels,lymph nodes,spleen,
Where are the white blood cells found in the human body?
In the blood vessels and in the lymph vessels.
What vessel does the lymph exit through?
A lymph vessel. They are similar in function to blood vessels. However the lymph is moved along the vessel by muscle contractions rather than by the heart pumping.
What is the blood plasma called when it leaves the blood vessels?
Lymph
What is blood plasma called when it leaves the blood vessels?
Lymph.
Where is lymph in the lymph vessels going to?
Back to the blood to become plasma again.
What is extracellular fluid AND where is it found?
Extracellular fluid is the fluid outside of cells. It is in the interstitial space, in the blood vessels and lymph vessels
What isextracellularfluid ANDwhere is itfound?
Extracellular fluid is the fluid outside of cells. It is in the interstitial space, in the blood vessels and lymph vessels
What fluid forms lymph?
Lymph is basically the same as the plasma from the blood. Lymph is formed when plasma leaks out of blood vessels into the interstitial space.
Why is it important that lymph vessels are spread throughout body?
lymph vessels are like blood vessels and they carry fluid similar in composition to blood plasma (only that they carry clear fluid containing less protein than blood plasma and numerous white blood cells which help to fight infection, especially lymphocytes), the body tissues are bathed in lymph from the blood , then the lymph vessels drain the lymph away just like the vein drains deoxygenated blood from body back to the heart, in a situation whereby the drainage of lymph by the lymph vessels is interupted, there is accumulation of fluid in that part of the body causing edema( excessive accumulation of fluid in the body) so the lymph vessels are important for drainage of lymph throughout the body and due to this they are able to carry antibodies(foreign micro organisms in the body) to the lymph node to be destroyed. all the lymph that is collected goes to the thoracic duct and right lymphatic duct which then empty back into the blood.
