SINCE 1828
mononuclear phagocyte system
nounDefinition of mononuclear phagocyte system
: a system of cells comprising all free and fixed phagocytes and especially macrophages together with their ancestral cells including monocytes and their precursors in the bone marrow — compare reticuloendothelial system
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