| maculate |
spotted or blotched, often caused by discontinuities in photobiont zone below upper cortex.
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| macrocyclic |
of rust life cycle, producing all five spore states; producing pycnia, aecia, uredinia and telia. cf. demicyclic, microcyclic.
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| macroconidium |
the larger, and generally diagnostic conidium of a fungus which also has microconidia (Nag Raj, 1993).
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| macrocyst |
in Myxomycota, an encysted aggregate of myamoebae; the resting form of a young plasmodium; the alternative to the sorocarp in some cellular slime moulds (Dictyosteliomycetes) (Hawksworth et al., 1983). cf. microcyst.
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| macrophage |
A large immune cell that devours invading pathogens and other intruders. Stimulates other immune cells by presenting them with small pieces of the invader. Macrophages can harbor large quantities of HIV without being killed, acting as reservoirs of the virus.
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