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RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM

Dictionary entry overview: What does reticuloendothelial system mean?

• RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM (noun)
The noun RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells

Familiarity information: RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

reticuloendothelial system ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

RES; reticuloendothelial system

Hypernyms ("reticuloendothelial system" is a kind of...):

system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)

Meronyms (parts of "reticuloendothelial system"):

mononuclear phagocyte system; MPS; system of macrophages (a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow)

Holonyms ("reticuloendothelial system" is a part of...):

immune system (a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response)

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