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

reticuloendothelial system

system - a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion"

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

mononuclear phagocyte system, MPS, system of macrophages - a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow

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Therefore let penal laws, if they have been sleepers of long, or if they be grown unfit for the present time, be by wise judges confined in the execution: Judicis officium est, ut res, ita tempora rerum, etc.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

"I will even do as Horace says, sir," I answered, smiling, "and carry you in medias res.

Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

``ere you put your hand on the Church's patrimony ---These things are inter res sacras, and I wot not what judgment might ensue were they to be handled by laical hands.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context

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