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Noun
  • A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells (synset 105468925)
    hypernym: system - a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
    part holonym: mononuclear phagocyte system, mps, system of macrophages - a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow
    part meronym: immune system - a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response
    synonym: reticuloendothelial system

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