RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reticuloendothelial system mean? 

• RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells

  Familiarity information: RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

RES; reticuloendothelial system

Hypernyms ("reticuloendothelial system" is a kind of...):

system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)

Meronyms (parts of "reticuloendothelial system"):

mononuclear phagocyte system; MPS; system of macrophages (a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow)

Holonyms ("reticuloendothelial system" is a part of...):

immune system (a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response)

 Context examples 

Following intravenous administration, iron sucrose is dissociated by the reticuloendothelial system into iron and sucrose; the sucrose component is eliminated mainly by urinary excretion.

(Iron Sucrose Injection, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intravenous administration, colloidal gold-bound recombinant human TNF travels through the bloodstream, avoiding immune detection and uptake by the reticuloendothelial system because of nanoparticle pegylation.

(Colloidal gold-bound tumor necrosis factor, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, ferric carboxymaltose is removed from plasma by the reticuloendothelial system.

(Ferric Carboxymaltose Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

As a non-specific immunostimulant, Corynebacterium granulosum P40 activates the reticuloendothelial system, induces the production of certain cytokines, enhances macrophage activity, and potentiates a delayed-type hypersensitivity response when co-administered with an antigen.

(Corynebacterium Granulosum P40, NCI Thesaurus)

The Fc moiety of this fusion protein mediates clearance of ligand-fusion protein complexes by the reticuloendothelial system (RES).

(Dalantercept, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intravenous administration, ferumoxides accumulates in phagocytic reticuloendothelial system (RES) cells of the liver (Kupffer cells).

(Ferumoxides Injectable Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

These intensely phagocytic cells line the walls of the sinusoids of the liver and form a part of the reticuloendothelial system.

(Kupffer Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration and absorption, the iron dextran complex is removed from plasma by the reticuloendothelial system which cleaves it into the components iron and dextran; ferric iron subsequently binds to transferrin or is stored as hemosiderin or ferritin.

(Iron Dextran Complex, NCI Thesaurus)