Lumbar trunk

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Lymph: Lumbar trunk
Deep lymph nodes and vessels of the thorax and abdomen (diagrammatic). Afferent vessels are represented by continuous lines, and efferent and internodular vessels by dotted lines. (Lumbar labeled at center right.)
Latin truncus lumbalis
Gray's subject #176 691
Drains from Lateral aortic lymph nodes
Drains to cisterna chyli
Dorlands/Elsevier t_20/12826052

The lumbar trunks are formed by the union of the efferent vessels from the lateral aortic lymph glands.

They receive the lymph from the lower limbs, from the walls and viscera of the pelvis, from the kidneys and suprarenal glands and the deep lymphatics of the greater part of the abdominal wall.

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