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 of trunk.

1, 3, Thoracic duct (emptying at 3); 2, receptacle for chyle (lacteals below it).

The lymphatic glands are kernel-like enlargements along the lymphatics, and they contain a great many lymph cells which purify the lymph as it passes through them. The lymphatic glands are numerous in the armpits and the groins. The cells in the lymph glands multiply, and some of them are carried by the lymph into the blood to become those remarkable little bodies, the white corpuscles.