Usually means: Immune cells in lung alveoli.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Alveolar macrophage)

noun:  An alveolar macrophage, pulmonary macrophage, (or dust cell) is a type of macrophage, a professional phagocyte, found in the airways and at the level of the alveoli in the lungs, but separated from their walls.


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