gitter cells

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gitter cells

microglial phagocytic cells of the central nervous system which are laden with degenerating myelin. The cells are spherical with a bubbly margin and with a reduced nucleus. Called also compound granular corpuscles, scavenger cells, Hortega cells, fat-granule cell.

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