FOAM CELL


Meaning of FOAM CELL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1926

: a swollen vacuolated phagocytic cell filled with lipid inclusions that often accummulates along arterial walls and is characteristic of some conditions of disturbed lipid metabolism

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