Lymphatic System Vocabulary * Definitions via Dictionary

1. Lymphatic SystemVocabulary* Definitions via Dictionary.com http://www.healingtouch.com.au/healingtouch-Lymphatic-Drainage.htm

2. What is your Lymphatic System?What does it do for you? • Take a moment as a class and brainstorm what you think the answers are…..

3. Listen to see if you are correct…

4. Ok…but what does all of those fancy medical terms mean???? • Well, Lets find out together. • Are your pencils ready to write and your minds ready to learn? • Here we go……

5. Artery-arteria- • a blood vessel that conveys blood from the heart to any part of the body.

6. Atrium-auriculas- • either of the two upper chambers on each side of the heart that receive blood from the veins and in turn force it into the ventricles. http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_sundog/40929814/

7. Capillary-capilar- • one of the minute blood vessels between the terminations of the arteries and the beginnings of the veins

8. Coronary Circulation-circulacion coronaria- • Coronary circulation is the circulation of blood in the blood vessels that supply blood to and from the heart muscle. http://www.raritanval.edu/ResourcesFaculty/InstructionalResources/Heart1to5.htm

9. Hemoglobin-hemoglobina- • the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues http://www.lifespan.org/adam/graphics/images/en/19510.jpg

10. Lymph-linfa- • a clear yellowish, slightly alkaline, coagulable fluid, containing white blood cells in a liquid resembling blood plasma, that is derived from the tissues of the body and conveyed to the bloodstream by the lymphatic vessels. http://oregonstate.edu/~peila/Pharmstuff/Projector%20Slides/Projector%20Slides/Lymph%20Node%20Reticular%20Connective%20Tissue%20Fixed%20Macrophases%20Cat.jpg

11. Lymph Node-ganglio linfatico- • any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes. http://www.peacehealth.org/kbase/media/medical/nci/cdr0000533339.jpg

12. Lymphatic System-sistema linfatico- • the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens

13. Lymphocyte-linfocito- • a type of white blood cell having a large, spherical nucleus surrounded by a thin layer of nongranular cytoplasm. http://www.interet-general.info/IMG/Lymphocytes-T-CD4-Infection-Par-Sida-4.jpg

14. Plasma-plasma- • the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements. PlasmaCell http://www.som.tulane.edu/classware/pathology/Krause/Blood/PlasmaCell1.jpg

15. Platelet-plaqueta- • a small platelike body, esp. a blood platelet. blood-clot-platelets.jpg

16. Pulmonary Circulation-circulacion pulmonar- • the circulation of blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation and back to the heart. http://webschoolsolutions.com/patts/systems/pul-circ.gif

17. Systemic Circulation-circulacion sistemica- • the circulatory system in general. http://web.hku.hk/~fungml/circ.gif

18. Vein-vena- • one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart. • 2.(loosely) any blood vessel. http://www.scvir.org/images/patients/normal_vein_vs_varicose_vein.jpg

19. Ventricle-ventriculos- • either of the two lower chambers on each side of the heart that receive blood from the atria and in turn force it into the arteries. http://a-s.clayton.edu/biology/biol1152L/cardiac_anatomy/ventricles.jpg