What is the function of the lymphatic System?

• Transport Fluid back to the blood

• Transport blood back to the lungs

• Helps digest food

• Helps exhchange CO2 for O2

Excess tissue fluid carried by the lymphatic vessels

Collects lymph from the the lymph capillaries

• Veins

• Arteries

• Lymphatic

  Vessels

• Intestines

Filters lymph before it is returned to the blood

Filters blood and destroy worn out blood cells

• Liver

• Spleen

• Lungs

• Legs

Captures and destroy bacteria in the intestines

• Peyer's Patch

• Stomach

• Spleen

• Thymus

Engulf foreign materials

• Cancer

• Macrophages

• T-Cells

• Lymph nodes

Can kill cancer cells and destroy virus infected cells

• Phagocytes

• B-cells

• Natural Killer Cells

• T-cells