phagocytizev.

1914 Lancet 11 Apr. 1056/1 The débris and pigment are ‘phagocytised’ by the mononuclear cells of the blood and the endothelial cells of the vessels.

1925 Physiol. Rev. 5 195 The ink particles so carried into the liver were readily phagocytized by the Kupffer cells of that organ.

1956 Arch. Pathol. 61 165/2 Many of the spores were phagocytized early in the normal rabbit.

1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol. xxiii. 582/1 This cell type [sc. the macrophage] is characterized by its large size, ability to migrate, and its ability to phagocytize foreign materials.

1993 Dog World Feb. 159/3 One important mechanism involves the macrophage; this cell circulates throughout the body, recognizes a tumor cell that has MAb bound to it, and phagocytizes or ingests it.

1922 Science 11 Aug. 154/1 The monocytes have the same kind of phagocytic activity, with the storage of phagocytized material, that characterizes the parent endothelium.

1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) ii. 8 The foreign body type of giant cell (chorioplaque) contains lipoids and other phagocytized substances and is often found in acne indurata.

2004 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 189 1313 Some phagocytized spores survive beyond germination, to become bacilli that then replicate within the macrophages.

1924 Physiol. Rev. 4 559 No evidence..of the true endothelium of the blood- and lymph-vessels and the heart..producing wandering, phagocytizing cells in inflammation.

1931 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 219 292 (caption) Phagocytising tail.

2003 Bull. Exper. Biol. & Med. 136 355 At the late stage [of Alzheimer's disease] we observed a decrease in the count of phagocytizing neutrophils, reduction of myeloperoxidase activity, and increase in the content of cationic proteins.