Shubhangi Jain
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Posted 4 year ago
What is the name of the cells in the body that engulf foreign particles like bacteria?
 (A) Phagocytes
 (B) Globulin
 (C) Fibrinogen
 (D) Albumin
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Shanaya
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Posted 4 year ago Shanaya

Phagocytes are cells that protect the body by ingesting harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. Their name comes from the Greek phagein, "to eat" or "devour", and "-cyte", the suffix in biology denoting "cell", from the Greek kutos, "hollow vessel".

Savita Gopal Mali
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PREETI SHARMA
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Posted 4 year ago PREETI SHARMA

Phagocytes are cells that protect the body by ingesting harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. Their name comes from the Greek phagein, "to eat" or "devour", and "-cyte", the suffix in biology denoting "cell", f...

Riyaa
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Posted 4 year ago Riyaa

Phagocytosis, process by which certain living cells called phagocytes ingest or engulf other cells or particles. The phagocyte may be a free-living one-celled organism, such as an amoeba, or one of the body cells, such as a white blood cell.

Charushila Patil
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