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Small, rounded structures along the small vessels of the lymphatic system that produce disease-fighting white blood cells and filter out harmful microorganisms and toxins from the lymph. Lymph nodes may become enlarged when they are actively fighting infection.

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First, bubonic (rhymes with pneumonic but is altogether different) is a local infection sequestered in a lymph node.
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“Active” search nodes depend on noise sources that can be as simple as an explosive squib.
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This is their cook book on how to stage an intervention or military operation starts with knocking out communications nodes.
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These changes are due to disturbance of the blood and lymph supply of the nervous tissue.
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If there are only fifteen power nodes, then how come there were so many different Gods and Goddesses among the Greeks?
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Lymph, then, is practically blood plasma plus some colorless corpuscles.
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By means of the oxygen passed over by the lymph, oxidation may take place within the cells.
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