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Medical Terminology · Chapter 8

Fluid, Vessel or Node?

Lymphatic terms name one of three things — the fluid, the vessel or the node — and charting one for another sends the next clinician to the wrong structure. Read each line, click the structure it is talking about, then name the combining form that carries it. The near-miss options are the ones students actually get wrong.
thoracic duct tonsils a gland thymus spleen lymph nodes lymphatic vessel tissue fluid
Step 1. Click the structure on the map, or use the list beneath it.