| • | a collection of putative macrophages; includes the “true macrophages” (i.e. mononuclear phagocyte system) as well as cells lining the sinusoids of the spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow, all of these latter cells are only weakly phagocytic and are not true macrophages |
| • | the term persists in the literature and is often equated with “mononuclear phagocyte system” |
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