Common symptoms include: 1  Pain or tenderness in your face, jaw joint area, neck and shoulders, and in or around the ear when you chew, speak, or open your mouth wide. 2  Problems when you try to open your mouth wide. 3  Jaws that get stuck or lock in the open-or closed-mouth position.
Fimbriae: 1  Structure: Similar to pili, but shorter and more abundant on the cell surface. 2  Function: Adhesion of cells to surface and formation of pellicles (biofilms) containing thin sheets of cells on a liquid surface.
the main function of lymph nodes is to act as a drainage system by absorbing and expelling proteins dead cells bacteria and other waste products from the body basically the y clean and filter the lymph before it is returned to the bloodo filter lymph they filter bacteria and other foreign materials out of lymph and expose them to lymphocytes and macrophages that can engulf them these cells multipl y in response to accumulation of such materials which is why lymph nodes swell during infections