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histiocyte
A macrophage present in connective tissue. Histiocytes derive from cells in the bone marrow that migrate to & differentiate in connective tissue.
Histiocytes include:
- Kupffer cells (liver)
- alveolar macrophages
- giant cells in granulomas
- osteoclasts
- Langerhans cells (epidermis)
Related
histiocytic infiltrate
histiocytic neoplasm
histiocytosis
Kikuchi's disease (histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis)
Specific
Anitschkow cell (caterpillar cell)
General
macrophage
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.