fixed phagocyte
1fixed phagocyte — noun a phagocyte that does not circulate in the blood but is fixed in the liver or spleen or bone marrow etc. • Hypernyms: ↑phagocyte, ↑scavenger cell …
2mononuclear phagocyte system — n a system of cells comprising all free and fixed macrophages together with their ancestral cells including monocytes and their precursors in the bone marrow compare RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM * * * (MPS) the collection of cells consisting of… …
3mononuclear phagocyte system — noun Date: 1983 a system of cells comprising all free and fixed phagocytes together with their ancestral cells including monocytes and their precursors in the bone marrow called also reticuloendothelial system …
4mononuclear phagocyte system — noun a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow • Syn: ↑MPS, ↑system of macrophages • Hypernyms: ↑system • Part Holonyms: ↑reticuloendothelial system, ↑RES …
5scavenger cell — noun a cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms • Syn: ↑phagocyte • Derivationally related forms: ↑phagocytic (for: ↑phagocyte) • Hypernyms: ↑somatic cell, ↑ …
6Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… …
7Macrophage — A type of white blood that ingests (takes in) foreign material. Macrophages are key players in the immune response to foreign invaders such as infectious microorganisms. Blood monocytes migrate into the tissues of the body and there differentiate …
8system — 1. [TA] A consistent and complex whole made up of correlated and semiindependent parts. A complex of functionally related anatomic structures. 2. The entire organism seen as a complex organization of parts. 3. Any complex of structures… …
9human disease — Introduction an impairment of the normal state of a human being that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. health versus disease Before human disease can be discussed, the meanings of the terms health, physical fitness, illness …
10B cell — B cells are lymphocytes that play a large role in the humoral immune response (as opposed to the cell mediated immune response, which is governed by T cells). The principal functions of B cells are to make antibodies against antigens, perform the …
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