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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mast cell

▶noun a cell found in connective tissue and releasing histamine and other substances during inflammatory and allergic reactions.

– origin C19: mast from Ger. Mast ‘fattening, feeding’.

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