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What is Length of thoracic duct is: and explain in detail?
In adults the thoracic duct, including the confluence of lymph trunks (or the cisterna chyli in the small propoion in whom the latter is saccular) is 38-45 cm in length and extends from the second lumbar veebra to the base of the neck.