Elizabethton, Tennessee. Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both the Eastern Continental Divide and the original Thirteen Colonies.
The lymphatic system is a network of tissues and organs that help rid the body of toxins, waste and other unwanted materials. The primary function of the lymphatic system is to transport lymph, a fluid containing infection-fighting white blood cells, throughout the body.
This threat is partly neutralized because lymph travels through lymph nodes, where itâs cleansed and examined by cells of the immune system. A special set of lymphatic capillaries called lacteals transports absorbed fat from the small intestine to the blood stream. Lacteals are so-called because of the milky white lymph that drains through them. This fatty lymph, called chyle drains from the fingerlike villi of the intestinal mucosa.