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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Kupffer cell /ˈkʊpfə/

▶noun Anatomy a phagocytic liver cell, involved in the breakdown of red blood cells.

– origin early 20th cent.: named after the Bavarian anatomist Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer.

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