RES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does RES mean? 

• RES (noun)
  The noun RES 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: RES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RES (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 ("RES" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "RES"):

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

Holonyms ("RES" 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 

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

(Dalantercept, NCI Thesaurus)

“Dis is de las’. Den we get one long res’. Eh? For sure. One bully long res’.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

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

(Ferumoxides Injectable Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

Tissues with decreased RES function such as metastases, primary liver cancer, cysts and various benign tumors, adenomas, and hyperplasia, retain their native signal intensity, consequently the contrast between normal tissue (with image darkening) and abnormal tissue is increased.

(Ferumoxides Injectable Solution, NCI Thesaurus)