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Phagocytic

adjective
1.
Capable of functioning as a phagocyte.





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"Phagocytic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the term applied by Wright to a substance, present in the serum of an inoculated animal, which is able to act upon or sensitise bacteria of the species originally injected, so as to render them an easy prey to the phagocytic activity of polymorphonuclear leucocytes. In the method for demonstrating opsonin about to be described, a comparison is made between the opsonic "power" of the pooled ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre


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