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Definition of Phagocytize

1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phagocytize

Literary usage of Phagocytize

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

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Such macrophages also exhibited a greatly amplified ability to phagocytize pathogenic bacteria in vitro, notably staphylococci, and to inhibit their intra- ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1918)
"... they look like gigantic amoebae, crawl from place to place, exhibit typical protoplasmic streaming and actively phagocytize foreign particles. ..."

3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"The enlarged cells continue to phagocytize the injected material. Where laked heterogeneous blood is used, the reaction is even more striking, ..."

4. Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy by Derek S. Linton (2005)
"Since the phagocytes were demonstrably unable to phagocytize bacterial toxins, Metchnikoff had to resort to some version of chemotaxis to explain their ..."

5. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"These cells patrol the alveolar surface and phagocytize inspired particulates such as bacteria, ..."

6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1917)
"... may be seen mononuclear wandering cells that contain no oxydase ferment and do not take the vital stain or phagocytize undis- solved particles of it. ..."

7. A Text-book upon the pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for students of by Joseph McFarland (1915)
"... the corpuscles render untenable theidea of extra- corpuscular development. Leukocytes phagocytize and destroy malarial parasites growing in vitro only ..."

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