OBO ID: CL:0000627

Term Name:	transporting cell		Search Ontology:
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Definition:	A cell involved in transporting nutrients, minerals, water, gases and other chemicals between cells for a variety of purposes including conveying nutrition to other tissues, removing waste products from the tissues, conveying gases for respiration, distributing heat and repelling invasion of foreign substances.
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Ontology:	Cell Ontology