Sentences with phrase «through lymph vessels»

Malignant lymphocytes travel through the lymph vessels to nearby lymph nodes.

It has no heart muscle to move the fluid around through its lymph vessels.

Viruses that escape this checkpoint drain through lymph vessels to local lymph nodes, where it was assumed macrophages finished the job of the innate immune system before specialized adaptive immunity kicked in.

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This slows circulation and when blood and lymph move through the breasts, fluid from the blood vessels can seep into the breast tissues.

It is through lymphatic vessels that information about these pathogens reaches the lymph nodes.

Lymphocytes constantly circulate through blood vessels within lymph nodes and other lymphoid organs, but only some actually enter lymphoid tissue by crossing the walls of the vessels, known as high endothelial venules (HEVs).

Lymph is the clear liquid that flows through the lymphatic vessels and contains white blood cells called lymphocytes.

Often located in fatty tissues, lymph collectors are large vessels that carry the lymph through to the lymph nodes.

The lymph system depends on intrinsic contractions of the smooth muscle cells in the walls of lymph vessels (peristalsis) and the movement of skeletal muscles to propel lymph through the vessels tolymph nodes and then beyond the lymph nodes to the lymph ducts which return lymph to the cardiovascular system.

The lymphatic vessels move the lymph through the body in one single direction: towards the heart.

In its trajectory the lymph also passes through lymph nodes which are strung along the lymph vessels like pearls in a necklace.

Laughter and deep breathing involve the movement of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles that help push lymph through the vessels.

Our body relies on muscle contractions to push blood through veins, and lymph through vessels.

The selective membranes of the small intestine only allow certain «good things» to pass through the tissue of the small intestine and enter the vast network of blood and lymph vessels below it.

The lymph fluid moves through channels called «vessels» that are filled with one way valves, so the lymph always moves in the same direction.

Form of massage designed to assist the function of the lymphatic system by the application of slow, light, and repetitive strokes that help move lymph fluid through the system of vessels and nodes.

The lymphatic system carries white blood cells and other immune cells through a network of vessels and tissues, including lymph nodes.

The lymph system is found in blood and tissues throughout the body; it is a network of vessels and nodes through which foreign proteins and disease organisms are circulated.

Malignant cancers (carcinomas) spread within the lung through airways, blood and lymph vessels.