Phagocyte
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Phagocytes are cells that protect the body by ingesting harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. They include monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, tissue dendritic cells, and mast
Scanning electron micrograph of a neutrophil phagocytosing anthrax bacilli (orange)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in his laboratory
Micrograph of Gram-stained pus showing Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria inside phagocytes and their relative sizes
Monocytes in blood (Giemsa stain)
Phagocytosis
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Phagocytosis is the process by which a cell uses its plasma membrane to engulf a large particle, giving rise to an internal compartment called the phagosome. It is one type of endocytosis. A cell that
Phagocyte
…eating other bacteria. Phagocytes of humans and other animals are called "professional" or "non-professional" depending on how effective they are at phagocytosis. The professional phagocytes include many types of white blood cells (such as neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, mast cells, and dendritic cells…
Trophozoites of Entamoeba histolytica with ingested erythrocytes
Starling Feeding Offspring