Talk:Lymph

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There should be a separate page for lymph instead of redirecting to the lymphatic system.  —Ketan Panchal t aL K   15:14, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Section called "Formation of Lymph" states " ISF forms at the arterial end of the capillaries,,,and returns at their venous ends". " Lymph is a watery clear liquid". Sounds like nonsense to me. Rather there ARE NO ends to the capillaries which are continous from the outgoing capillaries to the returning capillaries. Only thus can red blood cells traverse the system without becoming dispersed in the ISF. John C Hysore —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.72.36.148 (talk) 23:01, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Composition of lymph
The "Composition of lymph" section ends with "It is in the organ systems". Something seems to be missing here. 24.91.169.141 (talk) 04:02, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

The final sentence is now "It's job is to bathe the cells with water and nutrients." This should read "Its job is ...." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.18.238.178 (talk) 21:36, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

This seems like a fairly good reference: Lymph Stasis: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment. One of the first things it says is "The chemical composition of lymph is to a large degree different from that of plasma," a contradiction to the current text of the article, which says lymph is "comparable to" plasma. Someone with more of an interest in this subject than me should see what other details can be gleaned from that text and included in the article. —mjb (talk) 20:39, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Lymph vs. interstitial fluid
The beginning of the article is confusing and contradictory. Lymph is defined as "interstitial fluid," but the diagram to the right shows "the formation of lymph from interstitial fluid." How can i.f. turn into lymph if it is already lymph? Ishboyfay (talk) 23:58, 16 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I've made some edits to the article which corrects the contradiction. Looking back in the history shows this mess happened when someone mistakenly tried to correct grammar and changed the meaning of the first paragraph, later edits worsened the problem. Wingedsubmariner (talk) 03:05, 23 November 2010 (UTC)(samuel )

Text moved from article
''The article seems like demonstrable nonsense to this engineer. It ignores key matters : The first and most important purpose of the blood system is to transport insoluble components from the heart back to the heart, like red blood cells ! Thus there is not an "end" to any capillary but instead any arterial capillary must directly join a venous capillary.

The second most important function is to deliver large quantities of oxygen and remove similar quantities of carbon dioxide. These soluble materials can diffuse out of capillaries, through lymph,and into a cell, no problem.

You have extablished that one cell is not infinitely connected to its adjacent cell, but it is obvious that two cells are connected at at least one point. Fair enough. So now the lymph system must refer to the infinitely large, infinitely-connected collection of interstitial spaces.

Logically liquid collecting in such a space needs to be pumped back into the venous system and this is done at lymph nodes which are actually pumps and which should be called that. This means that each 'node' or pump requires an exit line i.e. a capillary-sized tube, open at its end, but containing a valve to prevent reverse flow.

Thus the lymph system is the sump-system of the body!''


 * The above text was inserted by 12.72.30.91. EuTugamsg 21:29, 25 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, that shouldn't have been on the page. To answer 12.72.30.91 objections, the ends of capillaries referred to in Formation are not dead ends but where the capillary connects to the rest of the circulatory system, with an arterial end where blood enters (where this is high blood pressure and fluid can be forced into the interstial space and lymphatic system) and a venous end where blood exits (and low pressure where interstial fluid/lymph leaves). The only pump in this system is the heart. I have no idea what 12.72.30.91 was refering to when he talked about "infinitely connected" cells. Wingedsubmariner (talk) 21:55, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Does "the circulation" refer to the circulatory system?
The meaning of "Lymph returns protein and excess interstitial fluid to the circulation." is unclear. I believe it means that lymph returns proteins and excess interstitial fluid to the circulatory system. The previous sentence suggests this is correct. I wanted to double check here before making the change. -David 216.239.45.130 (talk) 19:16, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Lymph-Obligatory Load
Could this medical terminology be mentioned in this article? Sample ref.: Thanks. Praemonitus (talk) 18:47, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I took care of it. Praemonitus (talk) 21:03, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

After Death Section Removal
Should the "After Death" content be removed since it only applies to a specific group? HealthCareDude (talk) 23:04, 24 December 2023 (UTC)