Lymphatic participation in cutaneous phenomena: Harvey Lecture, April 16, 1942

PD McMaster - Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1942 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PD McMaster
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1942ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
C525; IRCULIRCULATING blood does not come into actual contact with|| the cells which it
nourishes. Instead fluids escape from the blood vessels and, after passing among the cells,
re-turn to the blood in partdirectly, in part afterentering a vast system of collecting channels,
the lymphatic system. How the fluid moves through the tissues or enters the lymphatics no
one knows, but once within these vessels, the lymph, as it is now called, is sieved through
the lymph nodes before it is poured back into the blood.
C525; IRCULIRCULATING blood does not come into actual contact with|| the cells which it nourishes. Instead fluids escape from the blood vessels and, after passing among the cells, re-turn to the blood in partdirectly, in part afterentering a vast system of collecting channels, the lymphatic system. How the fluid moves through the tissues or enters the lymphatics no one knows, but once within these vessels, the lymph, as it is now called, is sieved through the lymph nodes before it is poured back into the blood.
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