white blood cell phagocyte Preparing for my lecture on the immune system, I found an interesting website that describes and draws the main immune system roleplayers as characters. Here’s a WBC (white blood cell), definitely a phagocyte, probably a macrophage (big eater).

I like sites with analogies and pictures- yeah, it’s a kindergarten approach, but I think medical terminology can be boring enough- anything we can do to spice it up or make it more accessible is GOOD. And beyond kindergarten, good drawings and animations are invaluable for learning physiology and pathology.