Alveolar Macrophage

Preferred Label : Alveolar Macrophage;

NCIt synonyms : Pulmonary Macrophage; Pulmonary Macrophages;

NCIt definition : Phagocytic macrophages on the surface of the pulmonary alveoli. They ingest foreign substances inhaled into the alveoli.;

Details

Origin ID

C12565;

UMLS CUI

C0085236;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Alveolus [NCIt concept]
- Immune System [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Alveolar macrophages [LOINC component]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Alveolar macrophage [FMA entity]
- Alveolar macrophage (cell) [SNOMED CT concept]
- alveolar macrophage [SNOMED Notion]
- macrophages, alveolar [MeSH Descriptor]
- macrophages, alveolar [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Cell [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Alveolar macrophage [FMA entity]
- Alveolar macrophage (cell) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Alveolar macrophages [LOINC component]
- alveolar macrophage [SNOMED Notion]
- macrophages, alveolar [MeSH concept]
- macrophages, alveolar [MeSH Descriptor]

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