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lymph fluid - Answer fluid from the blood that moves into lymph vessels; carries digested food, oxygen, and hormones; Also called interstitial fluid: resembles blood plasma lymphatic vessels - Answer large vessels with valves, which collect and carry lymph to lymph nodes; closely parallel veins lymph nodes - Answer Tiny oval shaped lymph structures surrounded by a capsule, act as a filter for harmful substances lymphatic system - Answer the network of vessels through which lymph drains from the tissues into the blood. palatine tonsils - Answer located on the left and right sides of the throat in the area that is visible through the mouth lingual tonsils - Answer located at the base of the tongue pharyngeal tonsils - Answer (Adenoids) - posterior wall of nasopharynx. spleen - Answer Largest lymphatic organ; it produces lymphocytes, filters the blood, stores blood cells, and destroys old blood cells; located in upper left quadrant of the abdomen Immunity - Answer Resistance to disease thymus - Answer Gland in the thoracic cavity above the heart where T lymphocytes mature. natural immunity - Answer immunity in which you are born with
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