CHAPTER 14: LYMPHATIC AND IMMUNE
SYSTEM EXAM WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
lymphatic system - ✔✔Overview: a complex network of vessels, ducts, nodes,
and organs that performs many important functions in the body
FUNCTION: (1) transports proteins and excess tissue fluid that leak from the
capillaries back to the venous blood.
(2) absorb and transport fat from the small intestine to the general circulation
immunity - ✔✔Protection against infection bestowed either by the immune
response produced by immunization or by previous infection or by other
nonimmunologic factors
Lymph(lymph/o) - ✔✔a clear, watery liquid that is derived from interstitial fluid
and that flows through the thin-walled lymphatic vasculature
, interstitial fluid - ✔✔the fluid surrounding the body's cells
intercellular spaces of the soft tissues of the body - ✔✔Where do the lymphatic
vessels begin?
lymph capillaries - ✔✔Fluid filtered out of the blood flows into single-layered
vessels called what?
lymph vessels - ✔✔lymph capillaries merge together in order to form what, which
has valves just like veins to ensure a one-way flow of lymph
right subclavian vein - ✔✔Lymph from the RUQ of body drain into right
lymphatic duct and into what?
thoracic duct - ✔✔All other lymph from rest of body, not including RUQ, drains
into what duct which leads into the left subclavian vein?
Lymph nodes (lymphaden/o) - ✔✔small oval glands that occur in clusters along
the path of the lymph vessels
lymphocytes - ✔✔Any of the mononuclear, nonphagocytic leukocytes originating
from fetal stem cells and developing in the bone marrow; divided on the basis of
function and ontogeny into B cells and T cells
SYSTEM EXAM WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
lymphatic system - ✔✔Overview: a complex network of vessels, ducts, nodes,
and organs that performs many important functions in the body
FUNCTION: (1) transports proteins and excess tissue fluid that leak from the
capillaries back to the venous blood.
(2) absorb and transport fat from the small intestine to the general circulation
immunity - ✔✔Protection against infection bestowed either by the immune
response produced by immunization or by previous infection or by other
nonimmunologic factors
Lymph(lymph/o) - ✔✔a clear, watery liquid that is derived from interstitial fluid
and that flows through the thin-walled lymphatic vasculature
, interstitial fluid - ✔✔the fluid surrounding the body's cells
intercellular spaces of the soft tissues of the body - ✔✔Where do the lymphatic
vessels begin?
lymph capillaries - ✔✔Fluid filtered out of the blood flows into single-layered
vessels called what?
lymph vessels - ✔✔lymph capillaries merge together in order to form what, which
has valves just like veins to ensure a one-way flow of lymph
right subclavian vein - ✔✔Lymph from the RUQ of body drain into right
lymphatic duct and into what?
thoracic duct - ✔✔All other lymph from rest of body, not including RUQ, drains
into what duct which leads into the left subclavian vein?
Lymph nodes (lymphaden/o) - ✔✔small oval glands that occur in clusters along
the path of the lymph vessels
lymphocytes - ✔✔Any of the mononuclear, nonphagocytic leukocytes originating
from fetal stem cells and developing in the bone marrow; divided on the basis of
function and ontogeny into B cells and T cells
