Tutorial - Lymphatic System (SPE3510)

What is the purpose of antibodies?

• To pump lymph through the vessels
• To create lymph
• To fight infection
• To remove old red blood cells

The lymphatic structure that closely parallell veins are called?

• Capillaries
• Lymph
• Lymph Vessels

 A lymphatic structure located in the upper left quadrant of the abdomen is called ?

• Lymph
• Lymph fluid
• Spleen

Which of the following cells are responsible for fighting diseases? 

• White Blood Cells
• Red Blood Cells

A soft tissue inside the bone that produces blood cells

• immune cells
• lymph nodes
• spleen
• bone marrow

What is the body's hypersensitive response to an outside substance that is otherwise harmless?

• autoimmune disease
• allergy
• Hodgkin's disease
• cardiovascular disease

What "happens" in the lymph nodes?

• Excess glucose in the lymph is stored in the liver
• Carbon dioxide is removed from the lymph and passed to the lungs for exhalation
• Lymph is oxgenated and pumped through the body
• Lymph is cleaned of foreign antigens and debris

Which of the following is NOT a function of the lymphatic system?

• removes excess fluid from around organs

• absorbs/transports fats from the gut

• circulates blood around the body

• produces leucocytes

What is the name of the lymphatic tissue found in the back of the throat?

• thymus

• spleen

• tonsils

• liver

What do we call the large lymphatic vessels that drain lymph back into the circulatory system?

• lymph capillaries

• lymph veins

• lymph nodes

• lymph ducts