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What body part ingests microbes?

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Well actually, not a body part but the White Blood Cells in the body ingest microbes by the process called phagocytosis. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phagocytosis Also, lysosome which is found inside a cell has the ability to ingest microbes.

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