Intestinal lymph trunk

The intestinal trunk ( " intestinal stem" ) is an unpaired Lymphsammelstamm the abdominal cavity. He collects human lymph from the visceral lymph nodes ( lymph nodes or intestinal lymph nodes. Preaortici ). At the level of the diaphragm, he unites with the two strains for lumbar lumbar cistern ( Cisterna chyli ).

In the animal anatomy is as intestinal trunk, only the trunk of the drainage front Gekröselymphzentrums ( cranial mesenteric Lymphocentrum ) refers. It flows in horses, sometimes in goats directly lumbar cistern. In carnivores and artiodactyls, however, he joins mostly with the celiac trunk to trunk viscera ( visceral trunk ), which then moves into the lumbar cistern.