clasmatocyte
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Ancient Greek κλᾰ́σμᾰ (klásma, “a fragment, rupture”) + -cyte.
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Noun
[edit]clasmatocyte (plural clasmatocytes)
- (obsolete) Synonym of macrophage
- 1929, Ada Clark, Role of Clasmatocytes in Protection Against the Pneumococcus, page 2:
- The mobilization of clasmatocyte which Gay and his collaborators found produced such a remarkable increase in the resistance of rabbits to intrapleural infections with streptococcus caused no appreciable increase in their resistance to this strain of pneumococcus.