Intestinal trunk
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| Lymph: Intestinal trunk | ||
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| Modes of origin of thoracic duct. (Poirier and Charpy.) a. Thoracic duct. a’. Cisterna chyli. b, c’ Efferent trunks from lateral aortic glands. d. An efferent vessel which pierces the left crus of the diaphragm. e. f. Lateral aortic glands. h. Retroaortic glands. i. Intestinal trunk. j. Descending branch from intercostal lymphatics. | ||
| Latin | trunci intestinales | |
| Gray's | subject #176 691 | |
| Drains to | Cisterna chyli | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | t_20/12826034 | |
The intestinal trunk receives the lymph from the stomach and intestine, from the pancreas and spleen, and from the lower and front part of the liver.
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 Deep lymph nodes and vessels of the thorax and abdomen (diagrammatic). |
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| Bone marrow | Thymus (Hassall's corpuscles) | Spleen (White pulp, Periarteriolar lymphoid sheaths, Marginal zone, Red pulp) | Tonsils (Palatine, Lingual, Adenoid)
Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue: Gut-associated lymphoid tissue | Peyer's patches Lymph nodes: Subcapsular sinus | Paracortex | head and neck (Cervical, Virchow's) | iliac (External, Common, Internal) | lumbar/paraaortic (Lateral aortic, Preaortic, Inferior mesenteric, Retroaortic) | inguinal (Deep, Superficial) | Axillary Lymph vessels: Thoracic duct | Right lymphatic duct | Cisterna chyli | Lumbar trunk | Intestinal trunk Lymph | Lymphocytes | High endothelial venules | Immune system |
