| monocyte |
A mononuclear phagocytic leukocyte with an ovoid or kidney-shaped nucleus, containing lacey, inear chromatin, and abundant gray-blue cytoplasm filled with fine, reddish and azurophilic granules.
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| monocyte |
A type of immune cell that circulates in the blood and becomes a macrophage when it enters the body's tissues and organs.
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| monocyte |
phagocytic cell found in the blood that acts as a scavenger capable of destroying invading bacteria or other foreign material; these cells develop into macrophages in tissues.
Ãâó: www.night-thunder.com/diseaseglossary.html
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| monocyte |
A large white blood cell involved in the first line of immune defense and in the inflammatory process
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| monocyte s. |
the succession of developing cells that ultimately culminates in the monocyte; after the colony-forming unitgranulocyte-macrophage, the stages in order of maturity are the monoblast, promonocyte, and the mature monocyte.
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