Your veins and lymphatic system play an important role in circulating blood throughout your body. Normally, your heart pumps out fresh oxygenated blood and your veins bring it back. Over time, your ...

Complementary to the circulatory system, the lymphatic system is a network of tissues and vessels that maintains fluid homeostasis, forms part of the immune system, and facilitates the absorption of ...

Lymph is the fluid in your lymphatic system, also called lymphatic fluid. Blood reaches tiny capillaries that have small holes in them to let some of the fluid escape or seep out into the tissues.

Laurencia Villalba is a vascular surgeon in private and public practice. Alison Tomlin and Theresa Larkin do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...