What is lymph?Why it is known as extracellular fluid?

Answer 1

Lymph, common name for the fluid carried in the lymphatic system. Lymph is diluted blood plasma containing large numbers of white blood cells, especially lymphocytes, and occasionally a few red blood cells. Because of the number of living cells it contains, lymph is classified as a fluid tissue.

Lymph diffuses into and is absorbed by the lymphatic capillaries from the spaces between the various cells constituting the tissues. In these spaces lymph is known as tissue fluid, plasma that has permeated the blood capillary walls and surrounded the cells to bring them nutriment and to remove their waste substances. The lymph contained in the lacteals of the small intestine is known as chyle.

The synovial fluid that lubricates joints is almost identical with lymph, as is the serous fluid found in the body and pleural cavities. The fluid contained within the semicircular canals of the ear, although known as endolymph, is not true lymph.

Answer 2

Lymph is a fluid produced by the immune system. It contains white blood cells that fight off infectious substances (such as viruses or bacteria) that have entered the body. Lymph travels in a system similar to the circulatory system, but the lymph vessels do not have a pump (the circulatory system has the heart). Extracellular means outside of the cells. Lymph is extracellular because it does not travel inside of cells, but instead travels free of the cells.

Answer 3

Lymph is the fluid that carries infection from all over the body to the various lymph node sites (armpit, neck, groin, abdomen) to filter out those bad guys. That's why sometimes in an infection, those spots are swollen and sore.
Its extracellular because its outside the cells and runs in its own system, like blood.

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What is lymph?Why it is known as extracellular fluid?

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Lymph originates as blood plasma lost from the circulatory system, which leaks out into the surrounding tissues via capillaries which are permeable. The lymphatic system collects this fluid by diffusion into lymph capillaries, and returns it to the circulatory system. Once within the lymphatic system the fluid is called lymph, and has almost the same composition as the original interstitial fluid.

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