mononuclear phagocyte
1mononuclear 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… …
2Mononuclear phagocyte system — Reticuloendothelial system is an older term for the mononuclear phagocyte system. The mononuclear phagocyte system consists primarily of monocytes and macrophages. The spleen is the largest unit of the mononuclear phagocyte system. The monocyte… …
3mononuclear phagocyte — any cell of the monocyte macrophage lineage, including macrophages, monocytes, and their precursors in the monocytic series …
4mononuclear 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 …
5mononuclear 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 …
6MNP — mononuclear phagocyte …
7macrophage system — mononuclear phagocyte s …
8MNP — • mononuclear phagocyte …
9monocyte — Mononuclear phagocyte circulating in blood that will later emigrate into tissue and differentiate into a macrophage …
10Cell — 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… …