Definition of Opsonize

1. Verb. Make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes.

Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Opsonisation, Opsonization

Definition of Opsonize

1. Verb. To make (bacteria or other cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes by use of opsonins. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Opsonize

1. to form opsonins in [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Opsonize

opsonies
opsonified
opsonifies
opsonify
opsonifying
opsonin
opsonins
opsonisation
opsonise
opsonised
opsonises
opsonising
opsonium
opsoniums
opsonization
opsonize (current term)
opsonized
opsonizes
opsonizing
opsonocytophagic
opsonometry
opsonophagocytosis
opsonophilia
opsonophilic
opsony
opt
opt-outs
opt in

Literary usage of Opsonize

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

1. Vaccine and Serum Therapy: Including Also a Study of Infections, Theories of by Edwin Henry Schorer (1909)
"Walker has found that with many bacteria, undiluted normal serum will opsonize so many bacteria in a heavy suspension of bacteria that the leucocytes will ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"... power of the same may l>e much above the normal, assuming, of course, that the op- sonin present is sufficient to opsonize the quota of ..."

3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"guinea-pig and the power of the serum to opsonize Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus typhi has been tested. Experiment I.—Into the peritoneal cavity of a ..."

4. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"To " opsonize " or render attractive by the application of chemical " relish " is a proceeding which we find in operation in the feeding of the minute ..."

5. Pathogenic Microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1917)
"The culture when obtained may also, as is frequently the case with pneumococci and streptococci, fail to opsonize readily. These and other reasons tend to ..."

6. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser (1918)
"... although heated immune serum may unquestionably opsonize by itself, its action may be still further enhanced by the addition of a little diluted normal ..."

7. Understanding the Immune System by Lydia Woods Schindler (1991)
"... in an immunosuppressed person caused by an organism that does not usually trouble people with healthy immune systems. opsonize—To coat an organism with ..."

8. Wisconsin Medical Journal by State Medical Society of Wisconsin (1908)
"... power of the same may be 3^ times the normal., assuming of course that the opsonin present is sufficient to opsonize the quota of pneumococci necessary. ..."

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