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- noun Plural form of
haematocyte .
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Primitive chordates such as the sea squirt have no clotting system; they plug up any wounds with mobile blood cells called haematocytes.
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Sea Squirts have no coagulation system, but plug holes with haematocytes.
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Neutrophils, which are a type of white blood cell and part of the mammalian immune system, and haematocytes, which are cells that carry out a similar function in insects, react in the same way to infecting microbes.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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