phagocytableadj.

1908 Science 24 Jan. 135/1 Cultivation outside the body as saprophytes of parasitic and non-phagocytable pneumococci and other bacteria, tends to alter their relation to the opsonins and to phagocytosis.]

1909 Science 12 Feb. 243/2 The thermolabile, activating element, however..probably remains free in the fluid of the phagocytic mixture, and there seems to me to be good room still for question as to whether its effect is exercised upon the phagocytable object or upon the phagocyte.

1927 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 13 40 Microbic dissociation in vivo would serve to transform a virulent but non-phagocytable organism into a non-virulent but phagocytable organism.

1985 Brit. Jrnl. Haematol. 60 531 Cetiedil had no effect on subcellular NADPH oxidase, an enzyme responsible for the respiratory burst that is activated by the perturbation of PMN plasma membrane with phagocytable particles or stimulators such as myristate.

2004 Biomaterials 25 2515 Phagocytable particles induced more IL-1β release.

1915 B. A. Thomas & R. H. Ivy Appl. Immunol. i. 15 An ingenious..laboratory method was devised whereby the measure of the ratio of phagocytability could be determined and this was styled the ‘opsonic index’.

1927 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 13 40 The frequent correlation between S type culture, high virulence and non-phagocytability on the one hand, and, on the other, the correlation between R type culture, non-virulence and phagocytability, are emphasized.