Kupffer cell

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

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

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