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Definition of Scavenger cell

1. Noun. A cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms.

Medical Definition of Scavenger cell

1. One of a diverse group of white blood cells with the capacity to engulf and destroy foreign material, dead tissues and cells. See: Phagocytosis. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scavenger Cell

Literary usage of Scavenger cell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Mental Diseases: With Special Reference to the Pathological by William Bevan Lewis (1899)
"... indicated by delicate outlines j axis-cylinders devoid of medulla are seen passing into the degenerated focus : and scavenger-cell is seen thrusting its ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"In defining the nature of the change found in the nerve-cell after fatigue, he alluded to the rôle of the 'scavenger-cell.' Waiving the several less secure ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"... scavenger cell. Quiet frequently large fat vacuoles are seen lying within the cytoplasm of glia cells which possess unusually prominent processes. ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"... scavenger cell. Quiet frequently large fat vacuoles are seen lying within the cytoplasm of glia cells which possess unusually prominent processes. ..."

5. Bulletin by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (1904)
"Cleaner cell tailing passes back through the rougher cells, the, tailing from which flows to a scavenger cell. The concentrate from this cell passes back to ..."

6. Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions by Lincoln C. Chen, Nevin S. Scrimshaw (1983)
"The macrophage is a scavenger cell known for its phagocytic activity, by virtue of which it can combat the uptake of microbial, environmental, ..."

7. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1899)
"... neuroglia cell is a " scavenger " cell, and forms a part of the lymph connective system of the brain. This is a subject which he must be left to fight ..."

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