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Blood's quiet understudy, hauling waste and training killers in silence.
means A clear, pale fluid that drains from body tissues, carrying waste and immune cells through a separate circulatory network back toward the blood.
from From Latin 'lympha,' meaning clear water or water-spirit, itself likely a rough relative of 'nympha' (nymph) — Romans pictured the water-goddesses when they saw this clear fluid, and the poetic name stuck even after they figured out it had nothing to do with rivers or springs.
- no pump
- moves only via muscle squeeze, not a heart
- nodes
- swell when they are busy winning fights
- volume
- roughly twice as much lymph as blood plasma
- fat transport
- carries digested fats straight past the liver