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Your immune system's riot cop — first on scene, asks no questions, dies fast.
means A white blood cell, the most abundant kind in human blood, that rushes to sites of infection and destroys invading microbes by engulfing them.
from From Latin 'neuter' (neither) plus Greek 'philos' (loving) — so, literally 'neutral-loving.' The name comes from 19th-century lab staining: these cells stayed pale, grabbing neither the acidic (eosin, pink) nor basic (basophilic, blue) dyes histologists used to tell blood cells apart. A name born of indifference to dye, not to duty.
- lifespan
- lives only about 8 hours in blood
- abundance
- 60 percent of all white blood cells
- weapon
- flings its own DNA as a net
- daily output
- bone marrow makes 100 billion per day