Monocytes move to sites of infection and signal the immune system that a response is needed and are responsible for eliminating foreign substances. The absolute monocytes blood test measures the percentage of monocytes in relation to all white blood cells.
Parentheses are a pair of curved marks that you put around words or numbers to indicate that they are additional, separate, or less important. (This sentence is in parentheses.) 2.
1540s, words, clauses, etc. inserted into a sentence, from Middle French parenthÃ¨se (15c.), from Late Latin parenthesis addition of a letter to a syllable in a word, from Greek parenthesis, literally a putting in beside, from parentithenai put in beside, from para-beside (see para-(1)) + en-in + tithenai put, place, from PIE root *dhe-to put, to do (see factitious).