Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mononuclear_phagocyte_system

1 sense of mononuclear phagocyte system

Sense 1
mononuclear phagocyte system, MPS, system of macrophages -- (a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow)
       => system -- (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion")