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Question
Give appropriate biological or technical terms for the following:
Squeezing out of white blood cells from the capillaries into the surrounding tissues.
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Solution
Diapedesis
Explanation:
Diapedesis is the process by which white blood cells (WBCs) move out or squeeze through the walls of capillaries into the surrounding tissues, especially during an immune response to infection or injury.
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