Lymph system

Question 1

What are lymph capillaries called in intestines?

Answer 1

Lacteals

Question 2

What are the lymphoid cells?

Answer 2

1. Lymphocytes
2. Macrophages
3. Dendritic Cells
4. Reticular cells

Question 3

What are the two types of lymphocytes

Answer 3

T cells are soldiers, B cells can differentiate

Question 4

What divides lymph nodes into sections?

Answer 4

Trabeculae

Question 5

What are the two components of the spleen?

Answer 5

Red pulp = macrophages engulfing RBCs
White pulp = WBC area

Question 6

What structure teaches immunocompetence to the WBCs?

Answer 6

The thymus

Question 7

What is MALT?

Answer 7

They are appendix/tonsils/peyer’s patches/nodules that are in strategic locations

Question 8

What is leukocytosis?

Answer 8

The proliferation of WBCs

Question 9

What are the 3 types of granulocytes?

Answer 9

1. Neutrophils are hydrolytic enzymes and phagocytes
2. Eosinophils are 2 lobes, and modulate immune response to allergies
3. Basophils make vessels leaky and contain histamines

Question 10

What are the two types of Agranulocytes?

Answer 10

1. lymphocytes (T cells and B cells)
2. Monocytes ( chronic infections/viruses)

Question 11

What are the two classifications of leukemia?

Answer 11

Acute is the cancer of a cell blast and chronic is after development cancer of the WBCs

Question 12

What causes mononucleosis (enlarged lymphocytes) (MONO)

Answer 12

Epstein Barr virus

Question 13

What is leukopenia?

Answer 13

Low WBC count