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  • They cut out the area around the mole, and because of its size, they took out eighteen of his lymph nodes.†  (source)
    lymph nodes = bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • It's a form of cancer that attacks the lymph nodes.†  (source)
  • In one patient, Henrietta's cancer cells metastasized to her lymph nodes.†  (source)
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  • They were affecting lymph nodes, for example.†  (source)
    lymph nodes = bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • There were lymph glands that might do him in.†  (source)
    lymph glands = lymph nodes -- bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • Despite oral sulfatriad tablets and, later, at Ghosh's insistence, injection of precious penicillin into his buttocks, scarlet streaks (which were the hallmark of streptococcal infection) showed at his wrist, and the epitrochlear lymph node behind the elbow became as big as a golf ball.†  (source)
    lymph node = one of many bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • He had also had a swollen lymph gland, four warts, and six cases of impetigo in the groin, but it would not have occurred to him or any man to think of these as diseases; they were only the spoils of war.†  (source)
    lymph gland = lymph node -- one of many bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • His movements were smooth and flowing as he bent Anjali's head toward her chest to check for neck stiffness, as he felt for lymph nodes, moved her limbs, and as he tapped her patellar tendon using his cocked finger in lieu of a reflex hammer.†  (source)
    lymph nodes = bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • That's what got us started on all this—thickening of the lymph glands, here and there, at the back of the knee or the crook of the elbow for instance, rather like the tumors associated with dropsy.†  (source)
    lymph glands = lymph nodes -- bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • "This, along with enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes indicates a clear pattern of—" The door squeaks open and McGovern turns, his pointer still buried in the doe's belly.†  (source)
    lymph nodes = bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • He described the lymphatic vessels, the system of arteries and absorbent tubes; spoke about how breast milk was formed from lymph collected from the legs, abdomen, chest, one arm, and one side of the head; then went on to talk about how at various points in the lymph vessels there were delicate filters called lymph glands, located along the neck, in the armpits, at the crooks of the elbows, the backs of the knees, and similar intimate, sensitive spots on the body.†  (source)
    lymph glands = lymph nodes -- bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • The plague sores—buboes—are lymph nodes that have been turned into necrotic, hemorrhagic tissue.†  (source)
    lymph nodes = bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
  • Greg was then a chemistry and nursing student, and when he learned that his father's cancer had metastasized and spread to his lymph nodes and liver, he realized how quickly he could lose him.†  (source)
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