our observations suggest that in the absence of the spleen , this function of forming red blood corpuscle-phagocyting cells , normally a minor activity of the lymph nodes , becomes highly developed in the latter organs , and that these cells , and the stellate cells of the liver , thus assume , in part at least , the function of destroying red blood corpuscles by phagocytosis .
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