Category: L

A study of the impact of diet on cardiovascular health. It documented that people who had suffered a heart attack could reduce their risk of a second heart attack by following a Mediterranean diet.  

The idea that one of the X chromosomes of the female is inactivated during embryogenesis and becomes hyperpyknotic. This chromosome forms, in the cell nucleus, the sex chromatin mass, or Barr body. This X chromosome remains in this state throughout the cell’s progeny so that in the adult only one X chromosome is active in…

An autosomal dominant predisposition to colon cancer and other solid tumors. People with Lynch I syndrome are susceptible to colon cancer alone, whereas those with Lynch II syndrome have an additional tendency to get cancers of the colon, ovaries, breasts, and/or uterus. It is also known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer.  

Lymph nourishment of cells in regions devoid of blood vessels.  

The effect of attracting or repelling lymphocytes.  

The use of radioactive tracers to identify the lymphatic drainage basin of a tumor. The technique is used to guide the surgeon in performing biopsies and in the removal of tumors. In the realm of medical procedures, there exists a fascinating technique involving the introduction of a radioactive substance that specifically accumulates within the intricate…

Dilated lymph channels that resemble hemorrhoids.    

Any benign or malignant disease in which lymphocytes or lymphatic tissues proliferate. Included are self-limited proliferation of lymph glands, lymphocytes, and monocytes; infectious mononucleosis; benign abnormalities of immunoglobulin synthesis; leukemias; lymphomas such as Hodgkin’s disease, lymphosarcoma, reticulum cell sarcoma, and mycosis fungoides; malignant proliferative response or abnormal immunoglobulin synthesis such as plasma cell myeloma, macroglobulinemia,…

To the lymphocyte, to the mononuclear phagocyte system, and to the tissues that support their growth.  

Concerning the proliferation of lymphoid tissue. A rise in the quantity of lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell (WBC) produced in lymphatic tissue distributed across the body, including the lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, tonsils, Peyer patches, and occasionally the bone marrow.