Functions
The lymphatic system has multiple interrelated functions:
- it is responsible for the removal of interstitial fluid from tissues
- it absorbs and transports fatty acids and fats as chyle from the digestive system
- it transports white blood cells to and from the lymph nodes into the bones
- The lymph transports antigen-presenting cells (APCs), such as dendritic cells, to the lymph nodes where an immune response is stimulated.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)