Phagocyte
Phagocytes are cells that protect the body by ingesting harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. They were discovered in 1882 by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov while he was studying starfish larvae. Phagocytosis is the process of taking in bacteria, parasites, dead and host cells by a chain of molecular processes. The name comes from the Greek phagein, ‘to...