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Macrophages phagocytize (eat) bad things (pathogens)

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What eats foreign things in the body?

Antibodies. phagocyte - a white blood cell


What surrounds and eats the invaders in the body?

Phagocytes are a type of white blood cell, and they surround and eat invaders in the body.


What is a white blood cell that eats any pathogen?

It is called a "killer" T-cell


What eats foreign things in your body?

White blood cells call macrophages eat things that are small like bacteria. The word means 'big eater'.


Do white blood cells have phagocytes?

Some white blood cells are phagocytes. The word means "cell that eats".


How does blood cells work in the human body?

well it eats all the bad infections


A cell tha protects the body be eating invading cells is known as?

This is phenomena known as cellular immunity in which macrophages of body eats the invading cell but before that the foreign cell have to modify by MHC or some other type of molecules in the body so that these macrophagic cell can identify the forieng invading cell. Macrophages cells in different part of body are known by different name such as in nervous system they are known as neuroglial cell, in live known as kuffer cells etc.


What is a monoctye?

A monocyte is a specific type of leukocyte (white blood cell) that picks up debris and other waste in the body. It develops into macrophages and "eats" the bad substances that have entered the body. It is the third most common WBC in the body.


What happens when red blood cells eats white blood cells?

Red blood cells do not have the ability to "eat" other cells because they lack organelles like lysosomes. White blood cells, on the other hand, are the cells of the immune system and are responsible for fighting off infections and foreign substances in the body. If a white blood cell encounters a red blood cell, it may recognize it as a non-threatening cell and not attack it.


Which type of cell eats invading cells?

The term for cells that eat is phagocytes. For example, macrophages which eat invading organisms in the human body would be called a phagocytic cell. "Phag" comes from the Greek which means "eat."


What does a ER in the cell do?

It eats the vacuoles and then makes them into bubbles.


What is the name of the moth that eats blood?

The name of the moth that eats blood is called the vampire moth