IMMUNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Breslin et al aptly described the analogy best: “[while arteries and] veins [function] like a super highway, lymphatics are slow local roads eventually leading to the heart.”

Detailed explanation-2: -The analogy in use for the lymphatic system is that it’s our body’s security alarm system. It runs throughout the outside (skin) and has wiring (lymphatic channels) that run with the arteries and veins all through the body, allowing your body to detect an infection or injury and mount a fever and the immune response.

Detailed explanation-3: -One of the lymphatic system’s major jobs is to collect extra lymph fluid from body tissues and return it to the blood. This is important because water, proteins, and other substances are always leaking out of tiny blood capillaries into the surrounding body tissues.

Detailed explanation-4: -It maintains fluid levels in our body tissues by removing all fluids that leak out of our blood vessels. The lymphatic system is important for the optimal functioning of our general and specific immune responses.

Detailed explanation-5: -Which of the following best describes the lymphatic capillaries? They have large pores and follow venous pathways.