lymph node
English Thesaurus
1. the source of lymph and lymphocytes (noun.body)
| hyponym | : | axillary node, |
| definition | : | any of the lymph glands of the armpit; fights infections in the neck and chest and arm regions (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | peter's gland, peyer's patch, |
| definition | : | any of several lymph nodes in the walls of the intestines near the junction of the ileum and colon (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | bubo, |
| definition | : | a lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis (noun.state) |
| part meronym | : | immune system, |
| definition | : | a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response (noun.body) |
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