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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The widely diffused bodily system constituting all phagocytic cells except certain white blood cells.
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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
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