migratory cells

pl. A term applied under certain circumstances to the colorle corpuscles of the blood. "By means of the ameboid movement of their protoplasm, the pale corpuscles under some circumstances po e the power of wandering or emigrating from the blood-ve els, penetrating between the elements of their coats, and in this manner they find their way into the interstices of the ti ues, and hence into the commencements of the lymphatics. Cells like these, which appear to be wandering independently in the ti ues, and par cells." Quain: Anatomy. ticularly in the connective ti ue, are known as migratory migratory-locust, s. Entom.: Edipoda migrator i a. [LocUST.] migratory-pigeon, s. Ornith.: Columba ( Ectopistes ) migrator i a, the Pa enger-pigeon (q. v.). Mi-guěl-ites, s. pl . [See def.] Hist.: A Portuguese faction which supported Don Miguel, the third son of John III., who from 1826 to 1834 made abortive efforts to exclude his sister Donna Maria from the throne.