hemocyte

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The cells, known as mononuclear phagocytes, normally circulate through the body to clear harmful substances.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2025

Not only does Mab have "an unusually thick and impermeable cell envelope" that repels antibiotics, it also has the ability to hide inside phagocytes, immune cells whose job it is to engulf and kill microorganisms.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

In the spleen, most of the infected cells detected were frontline immune cells -- macrophages and monocytes -- known as phagocytes whose job is to swallow up invading organisms.

From Science Daily • Sep. 29, 2023

For example, some bacteria, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, surround themselves with a capsule that inhibits phagocytes from engulfing them and displaying antigens to the adaptive immune system.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Thereupon they dropped all reference to the Lamberts and their trials, and turned their minds upon phagocytes and other ravening mites whose likes and dislikes, minute as they are, work more devastation than cannon.

From The Tyranny of the Dark by Garland, Hamlin