phagocyticadj.

1887 Lancet 8 Oct. 706/1 The interesting researches of Metschnikoff and his phagocytic doctrine.

1892 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 631 Influences which are associated in aiding phagocytic action.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 87 Inflammation is to be regarded, on the whole, as a phagocytic reaction of the organism against irritants.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxviii. 1069 The severely injured and dying cells become surrounded by phagocytic cells derived from the microglia, which remove the debris (neuronophagy).

1985 Hepatology 5 32 The phagocytic activity of the reticuloendothelial system (RES) in the liver is important in host resistance to shock.

2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 13903/1 In addition, caspase-3-positive debris not associated with cells became more abundant..probably representing degenerating cells or phagocytic cells that have engulfed cell remnants.

1904 Proc. Royal Soc. 73 129 The phagocytic index given below..represents in each case the average number of bacteria ingested by the individual P.W.B.C. The number of polynuclear white blood corpuscles which have furnished the index is in each case inserted in brackets.

1971 W. J. Herbert & P. C. Wilkinson Dict. Immunol. 139 Phagocytic index, a measure of the activity of the reticuloendothelial system of the body. It is usually represented by a constant K that characterizes the rate of carbon clearance..from the blood and is inversely proportional to the dose of carbon injected.

1974 Brit. Jrnl. Haematol. 28 542 The phagocytic index was the average number of particles per neutrophil.

2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 681/2 The phagocytic index was calculated as the average number of EIgG [= sheep erythrocytes opsonized with rabbit anti-sheep IgG] ingested per cell.

1895 Science 7 June 619/1 While in the immature state they do not, for the moment, have the latent potentiality of germs that can, then and there, develop, but may even be destroyed phagocytically, or absorbed by other non-germinal tissues.

1911 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Nov. 1580/1 So far as staphylococci are concerned, the cells with one nucleus are more active phagocytically and those with four least active.

1963 R. P. Dales Annelids ii. 55 Kermack also found that food particles in the stomach were taken up phagocytically by certain epithelial cells.

1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 12333/2 Once ingested, the chloroplasts are phagocytically incorporated into the cytoplasm of one of two morphologically distinct, epithelial cells.