[Allahyar]

Tell me the differences between lymph and plasma

[tickle]

Lymph is basically blood plasma without the blood cells, the fluid that is forced out of capillaries to bathe and nourish cells. The part of it that does not return to the blood vessels is picked up by lymph vessels and eventually returned to the blood.

[asking]

Tickle, this is not quite right. Lymph and blood both have a liquid part and cell part. The liquid part of blood, the plasma, is very similar to the liquid part of lymph.

Lymph (with plasma and white blood cells that are part of the immune system) accumulates in between the cells of different tissues and flows into the lymphatic system, and from there to various lymph nodes. It carries waste material from the tissues to the lymph nodes where macrocytes (giant white blood cells) eat up all the bad stuff.

The plasma in blood leaks out of the blood vessels and goes to form some of what is in lymph.

So lymph and plasma are connected, but different.

[datocinca]

They are almost same, but lymph has very little amount of plasma proteins, which are not filtered through capillaries