HyperDic: microphage

English > 1 sense of the word microphage:
NOUNbodymicrophagea neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria)
English > microphage: 1 sense > noun 1, body
MeaningA neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria).
Categorybacteria, bacterium(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission
Broaderneutrophil, neutrophileThe chief phagocytic leukocyte

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