Usually means: Cells that ingest and destroy pathogens.
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  1. phagocytes: Merriam-Webster
  2. phagocytes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. phagocytes: Vocabulary.com
  4. phagocytes: Wordnik
  5. phagocytes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. phagocytes: Wiktionary
  7. phagocytes: Dictionary.com
  8. Phagocytes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. Phagocytes: Encyclopedia

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  1. phagocytes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Phagocytes: Merck Manuals
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  1. phagocytes: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (phagocyte)

noun:  (cytology) A cell of the immune system, such as a neutrophil, macrophage or dendritic cell, that engulfs and destroys viruses, bacteria and waste materials, or in the case of mature dendritic cells; displays antigens from invading pathogens to cells of the lymphoid lineage.
verb:  (transitive) To phagocytize
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