Definition of Cytophilic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Cytophilic

1. Refers to substances which are attracted to binding cells, like cytophilic antibodies. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytophilic

cytopathologists
cytopathology
cytopathy
cytopempsis
cytopenia
cytopenias
cytophaga
cytophagaceae
cytophagales
cytophagous
cytophagy
cytophanere
cytopharynx
cytopharynxes
cytophil group
cytophilic (current term)
cytophilic antibody
cytophosphane
cytophotometer
cytophotometers
cytophotometric
cytophotometrically
cytophotometry
cytophylactic
cytophylaxis
cytophyletic
cytophysiological
cytophysiology
cytoplasm

Literary usage of Cytophilic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recent Advances in Physiology and Bio-chemistry by Leonard Hill, Benjamin Moore (1908)
"its nature to the variable structure of the cytophilic and com- plemento-philic groups. To demonstrate this for the cytophilic group, let us take an actual ..."

2. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"... represented an excess of cell receptors formed during the course of immunization and were thus free in the serum to combine with the cytophilic group of ..."

3. Bacteriology: General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1921)
"One of these, the cytophilic group or ... An excessive irritation of a cell by a substance capable of uniting with the cytophilic group of a side- chain of ..."

4. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"... represented an excess of cell receptors formed during the course of immunization and were thus free in the serum to combine with the cytophilic group of ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"with at least two cytophilic affinities, can be produced by injecting an emulsion of the glandular cells of the stomach- wall of guinea-pigs into the ..."

6. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1904)
"... and cytophilic groups of the different venom principles. While weak HC1 and IC18 attack primarily the ..."

7. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Serum levels of cytophilic antibodies (eg, IgE) are considered reasonable indicators of allergic sensitization in asthmatic humans and many animal models ..."

8. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Nothing has thus far been found to decide the question whether or not the cytophilic group of the ..."

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