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ONE designates as phagocytes cells endowed with the ability to ingest particulate matter such as bacteria, cellular debris and colloidal dyes. The ingested material may or may not be digested within the cell, and one distinguishes between fixed and free phagocytes, depending on whether they belong to organs of the reticuloendothelial system or are leukocytes or macrophages circulating in the blood or tissue spaces.A great variety of cells are capable of taking up particulate matter under special conditions of experimentation, but I am mainly concerned here with the phagocytic activity of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and monocytes. The former have their . . .
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