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)
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)