IMMUNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Everywhere in your body, your lymphatic capillaries collect lymph and move it into larger lymphatic vessels. Along the way, the lymph passes through lymph nodes, which filter and clean the lymph. Eventually, your body discards the waste and returns the filtered lymph to your bloodstream to begin the cycle again.

Detailed explanation-2: -Of the fluid that leaves the capillary, about 90 percent is returned. The 10 percent that does not return becomes part of the interstitial fluid that surrounds the tissue cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -The lymphatic system is a network of delicate tubes throughout the body. It drains fluid (called lymph) that has leaked from the blood vessels into the tissues and empties it back into the bloodstream via the lymph nodes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The lymphatic vascular system scavenges this water and protein, ultimately returning it to the venous circulation via junctions with the subclavian veins at shoulder level (Figure 2).

Detailed explanation-5: -Fluid filtered from blood capillaries moves into the space between the capillary and the tissues, called interstitial fluid. After it moves through the tissues, it is returned to the bloodstream.