Which organ-system of the body contains the spleen?
B) the lymphatic system The spleen is like a giant lymph node in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen below the left lung and diaphragm that inspects and processes the blood by filtering it past dense aggregates of lymphocytes the way that the lymph nodes treat the lymph. A LITTLE EXTRA ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM The lymph nodes, another part of the lymphatic system, are small and widely distributed throughout the body, whereas all of the splenic tissue is consolidated into one large organ. Lymph is the fluid made from blood serum leaking out of the cardiovascular system into the interstitial (between the cells of the tissues) space that does not find its way back into the cardiovascular system. As stated, what the lymph nodes do for lymph, the spleen does for blood, and that is, to filter fluid through densely packed T and B lymphocytes to be inspected by the immunoglobins there in search of outsiders that don’t belong there and neutralizing those that they find. Besides the spleen and ly
