... komt een paar keer voor (google). Ik ben niet zeker van het gekozen taalgebruik van de auteurs (station) maar het gaat om een groep lymfeklieren. Uit wat ik lees begrijp ik dat de functie van individuele lymfeklieren momenteel apart bestudeerd wordt, mn de "sentinel node." VGL google "lymph node station" en "lymph node group."

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"Another difficult problem is the mobility of the nodal stations located proximally in the limbs (...). The location of these nodal groups vary greatly, depending on (...)." http://radiology.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/full/211/3/815

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It seems to me that the terms "nodal station" and "nodal packet" may have crossed over because of internet, data transmission and also human networking.

"Measurement architecture to obtain per-hop one-way packet loss and ..."
Nov 6, 2007 ... Filters 32 and 40 group packets in the defined aggregate, i.e., .... The per-hop, per-aggregate nodal packet loss (PktLoss NHD ) is a loss ...
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7292537.html

Transmission system formed by at least a base station, a mobile ... between the base station and the nodal station, the first multiplex link comprising .... A transmission system as in claim 1 wherein the nodal station is ...
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6160823.html

"The opening ceremony of the first Training Workshop on APTMNET Nodal Station Establishment was held in White Rose Hotel in Wuhan"
http://www.apctt-tm.net/events/display.jsp?id=510