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memory cell
<immunology> Cells of the immune system that do not respond immediately when it first encounters an antigen but facilitates the more rapid secondary response when the antigen is encountered on a subsequent occasion.

The long lasting immune memory is humoral and resides in B-cells, although it appears that persistence of the antigen may be essential. T-cell memory is shorter.