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What are the yellow dots seen on this picture?
Lymph nodes
What is located at #1?
Intestinal lymph nodes
What would be located just below #2? (Cut off in this image)
Inguinal lymph nodes
What is located at #1?
Axillary lymph nodes
What is located at #2?
Cervical/Tonsil lymph nodes
What naming convention is used within the lymph system?
If it is before a lymph node, it's just a vessel.
If it is between lymph nodes, they're collecting.
Once past the nodes, it's a trunk
What is located along the arrows to the right of #1?
Right jugular trunk
What is located along the arrows below #2?
Right subclavian trunk
What is located underneath #1?
Left lumbar trunk
What is located at #2?
Thoracic trunk
What is located at #1?
Thoracic duct
What is located at #2?
Right lymphatic duct
What is this? How do you know?
Lymph node. It's layered, with dark circular patches of color around the edge.
What is this? Identify the numbered bits.
Lymph node. 1. Capsule 2. Subcapular sinus (which contains T cells 3. Cortex 4. Medulla 5. Lymphoid follicle, with germinal center containing maturing B cells 6. Trabecullae 7. Cords 8. Medulary sinus 9. Hillum
What is this? How do you know? What is located in the darker circles? Outside the circles?
Spleen. Follicles are located throughout the organ. "White" pulp. Red pulp.
What is this? How do you know? What are the whitish spaces?
Thymus. Shape is lobular, (leading to the lobes being called lobules). Septa.
What is this? How do you know? What is the long slit in the center called?
Tonsil. Darker follicles around the edge, but the medulla is very small, and the structure is embedded in other tissue, as well as a prominent slit up the middle. A crypt.