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Fig. 66.—Chief Lymphatic Vessels and Glands of trunk.
1, 3, Thoracic duct (emptying at 3); 2, receptacle for chyle (lacteals below it).
The lymphatic glands are kernel-like enlargements
along the lymphatics, and they contain a great many
lymph cells which purify the lymph as it passes through them. The lymphatic glands are numerous in the armpits
and the groins. The cells in the lymph glands multiply,
and some of them are carried by the lymph into
the blood to become those remarkable little bodies, the white corpuscles.
