Kupffer cell
noun
Kupf·fer cell
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variants:
also Kupffer's cell \ -fərz-
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Medical Definition of Kupffer cell
: a fixed macrophage of the walls of the liver sinusoids that is stellate with a large oval nucleus and the cytoplasm commonly packed with fragments resulting from phagocytic action