An easy to understand lymph node.
- Mounted on base
- Includes key card
- Enlarged size
Model shows incoming lymph vessel, germinal centre, sinus, outgoing lymph vessel, capsule, Trabecula, incoming blood supply artery, and vein for outgoing blood. Lymph nodes vary in diameter from 1 to 25 mm, although they can swell during infection or illness. They are covered in a fibrous capsule, they contain sinuses, where many scavenging white blood cells, called macrophages, ingest bacteria as well as other foreign matter and debris.