Yet another type of vacuum cleaner onto which I stumbled—ones inside us. I wondered if we also have something like floor polishers in our bodies, too, but found nothing that the medical community uses as an analogy to them. 
Autophagy, an internal cleansing system, would be the closest possibility.
Attached is the beginning of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's 2004 article "DAT's incredible: Cellular Vacuum Cleaner Has New Role" written by Melissa Marino. The link is for those who want to read the entire report.
https://news.vumc.org/reporter-archive/dats-incredible-cellular-vacuum-cleaner-has-new-role/
Autophagy, an internal cleansing system, would be the closest possibility.Attached is the beginning of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's 2004 article "DAT's incredible: Cellular Vacuum Cleaner Has New Role" written by Melissa Marino. The link is for those who want to read the entire report.
https://news.vumc.org/reporter-archive/dats-incredible-cellular-vacuum-cleaner-has-new-role/
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