thymic macrophage
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000866
A tissue-resident macrophage resident found in the thymus, involved in the clearance of apoptotic thymocytes. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000031 GOC:tfm GOC:ana http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9048205 ]
Term info
human_reference_atlas
Role or process: immune, clearance of apoptotic thymocytes, antigen-presentation.
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- tissue-resident macrophage and part of some thymus and capable of some apoptotic cell clearance