Such were the wandering cells, which moved by flowing, exactly like that small animal, the ameba.

Of course -the wandering cells are what protect the starfish from microbes!

Around the rose-slivers in the starfish were sluggish crawling masses of its wandering cells!

B cells are wandering cells that are antibody factories.

But these wandering cells are not defenders, they are mere scavengers-they will only swallow dead microbes!"

Wandering Cells are probably amoeboid when alive but after fixations they are seen to possess a distinct nucleus.

Connective tissue cells are typically divided into two types, fixed cells and wandering cells.

Well, in the old days, like thirteen years ago, we cut out not only the breast cancer but also the places to which the wandering cell might have fled.

The wandering cells of nudibranchs are excretory taking up effete matter from the harmocoele and discharging it into the lumen of the gut.

Frequently, the term refers to circulating macrophages and has been used also for stationary macrophages fixed in tissues (histocytes), which are sometimes referred to as "resting wandering cells".

In anatomy and histology, the term wandering cell (or ameboid cell) is used to describe cells that are found in connective tissue, but are not fixed in place.

"These wandering cells in the body of the larva of a starfish, these cells eat food, they gobble up carmine granules-but they must eat up microbes too!

If Metchnikoff had only kept on, obscure in Odessa, with his beautiful researches on the why of the wandering cells of the water fleas eating up those terrible little yeasts.

Fibrocytes, or fibroblasts and fat cells are fixed cells, where as macrophages, monocytes, lymphocytes, plasma cells, eosinophils and mast cells are wandering cells.

He killed the guinea-pig, slashed it open, and sucked into another little glass tube some of the grayish slime of wandering cells which had gathered in the creature's belly to make meals off the microbes.

The fluid that fills the water vascular system is similar to marine water, but also has free wandering cells and organic compounds such as proteins and a high concentration of potassium ions when compared to the surrounding sea water.

He made every one of the ten thousand facts in it vivid, and every one of them was twisted prettily to prove his point It is a strange novel with a myriad of heroes-the wandering cells, the phagocytes of all the animals of the earth.

Our wandering cells, the white cells of our blood-they must be what protects us from invading germs . . . they are the cause of immunity to diseases . . . they are what keep the human race from being killed off by malignant bacilli!"