nephrocytes

nephrocytes
n. pl. [Gr. nephros, kidney; kytos, container]
Cells that occur singly or in groups in various parts in an invertebrate body and function to transform original waste material into a form with which the metabolic pathways can deal.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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