English Explanatory Dictionary

Kupffer cell

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of specialized macrophage located in the liver lining the walls of the sinusoids that form part of the reticuloendothelial system.

Word forms

Kupffer cell Kupffer cells

Etymology

First observed by Baltic German anatomist Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902) in 1876.

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