LYMPHATIC SYSTEM


Meaning of LYMPHATIC SYSTEM in English

noun Date: 1830 the part of the circulatory system that is concerned especially with scavenging fluids and proteins which have escaped from cells and tissues and returning them to the blood, with the phagocytic removal of cellular debris and foreign material, and with the immune response and that consists especially of lymphoid tissue, lymph, and lymph-transporting vessels

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