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Definition 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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The first known use of mononuclear phagocyte system was in 1983
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