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phagocyte

phago.cyte \'fag-*-.si-t\ \.fag-*-'sit-ik\ n [ISV, fr. Gk phagein + NL 
   -cyta -cyte] : a cell (as a leukocyte) that characteristically engulfs 
   foreign material  and consumes debris and foreign bodies - phago.cyt.ic aj