LYMPHATIC SYSTEM

IN MAMMALS INCLUDING HUMANS, HUMANS, THE LYMPHATI C VESSELS (OR LYMPHATI CS) ARE A NETWORK OF THIN TUBES THAT BRANCH, LIKE BLOOD VESSELS, INTO TISSUES THROUGHOUT THE BODY. LYMPHATIC VESSELS CARRY LYMPH, A COLORLESS, WATERY FLUID ORIGINATING FROM INTERSTITIAL FLUID (FLUID IN THE TISSUES). THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TRANSPORTS INFECTIONINFECTION-FIGHTING CELLS CALLED LYMPHOCYTES, LYMPHOCYTES, IS INVOLVED IN THE REMOVAL OF FOREIGN MATTER AND CELL DEBRIS BY PHAGOCYTES AND IS PART OF THE BODY'S IMMUNE SYSTEM. SYSTEM. IT ALSO TRANSPORTS FATS FROM THE SMALL INTESTINE TO THE BLOOD. BLOOD. THE SPLEEN, SPLEEN, THYMUS AND BONE MARROW ARE CONSIDERED AS LYMPHOI D TI SSUE. THE SPLEEN ACTS TO FILTER AND MODIFY THE BLOOD WHILE THE BONE MARROW AND THYMUS ACT TO PRODUCE AND MATURE LYMPHOCYTES AND OTHER IMMUNE CELLS. THE LYMPHATI C SYSTEM CONSISTS OF THE LYMPHATICS AND THE LYMPHOID TISSUE.

KIDNEYS

KI DNEYS ARE A FI LTER FOR THE BLOOD. THE BODY HAS TWO KI DNEYS LOCATED I N THE MI DDLE OF THE BACK AT ABOUT THE LOCATI ON OF YOUR ELBOWS. BLOOD I S PUMPED FROM THE HEART TO THE KI DNEYS TO BE CLEANED. EACH KI DNEY HAS ABOUT 1000 NEPHRONS THAT ACT AS FI LTERS. AS THE BLOOD GOES I NTO A NEPHRON, EVERYTHI NG THAT I S DI SSOLVED I N THE BLOOD (WASTE PRODUCTS, FOOD) I S PUSHED OUT OF THE BLOOD I NTO SMALL TUBULES. AS THESE THI NGS TRAVEL THROUGH THE TUBULE, THE WATER AND ANYTHI NG ELSE THE BODY NEEDS GOES BACK I NTO THE BLOOD. THE REST OF THE WASTE PRODUCTS KEEP MOVI NG THROUGH THE TUBULE I NTO THE URETHRA. THE URETHRA I S THE TUBE THAT LEADS TO THE BLADDER. THE CLEANED BLOOD LEAVES THE KI DNEY AND TRAVELS THROUGHOUT THE BODY