Heart Failure Â». Heart failure is the pathophysiologic state in which the heart, via an abnormality of cardiac function (detectable or not), fails to pump blood at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues and/or pumps only from an abnormally elevated diastolic filling pressure.
(Physiology) a glandular organ of vertebrates, consisting in man of two lobes situated below the thyroid. In early life it produces lymphocytes and is thought to influence certain immunological responses.
A lymph node is a small organ in the lymph or lymphatic system, an interconnected system of organs, vessels, ducts and nodes that allows the lymph to circulate all over the body. lymph node is a small organ in the lymph or lymphatic system, an interconnected system of organs, vessels, ducts and nodes that allows the lymph to circulate all over the body.