Histiocytes are macrophages that live in the soft, stretchy tissue that holds your body together. They clean up whatever does not belong.
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Histiocyte is another name for a macrophage that lives in your body's tissues. Many of them grew from monocytes that left the blood.
They live in the soft, stretchy connective tissue under your skin and around your organs. It is full of long fibers, like a tangle of string.
Histiocytes are big cells that can change shape and crawl between the fibers.
When you get a bruise, macrophages help clean up the old blood. That is part of why a bruise changes color, from purple to green to yellow, as it heals.
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