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  4. Which organ is considered as Graveyard of RBC where most of them are destroyed by macrophages?

Q. Which organ is considered as Graveyard of RBC where most of them are destroyed by macrophages?

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Solution:

Old RBCs are destroyed along with pathogens by phagocytosis, carried by macrophages in the spleen. Thus spleen acts as graveyard of RBCs.