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- noun Plural form of
macrophage .
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Examples
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White cells called macrophages and leukocytes multiply and kill off some of the bacteria in your system.
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White cells called macrophages and leukocytes multiply and kill off some of the bacteria in your system.
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Then scavenger cells called macrophages come in and gobble up the dead vein like garbage.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Then scavenger cells called macrophages come in and gobble up the dead vein like garbage.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Then scavenger cells called macrophages come in and gobble up the dead vein like garbage.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Barberry contains berberine, which is believed to enhance immune function by stimulating immune cells called macrophages, white cells that circulate throughout the blood, gobbling bacteria, viruses, and other foreign invaders.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Barberry contains berberine, which is believed to enhance immune function by stimulating immune cells called macrophages, white cells that circulate throughout the blood, gobbling bacteria, viruses, and other foreign invaders.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Barberry contains berberine, which is believed to enhance immune function by stimulating immune cells called macrophages, white cells that circulate throughout the blood, gobbling bacteria, viruses, and other foreign invaders.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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As immune cells called macrophages burrow into the arterial tissue to gobble up foreign material, they can set off a vicious cycle of irritation and scarring.
Cardiac Contagion 2008
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Immune cells known as macrophages become infected with C. pneumoniae and carry it from the respiratory system -- its primart target -- into the blood stream. 2.
Cardiac Contagion 2008
carmenlahiffjenkins commented on the word macrophages
n. Any of the large phagocytic cells of the reticuloendothelial system.
January 19, 2009