phagocytosev.

1905 Lancet 8 July 111/1 I did not see any spirilla phagocytosed.

1912 R. W. Allen Vaccine Therapy (ed. 4) i. 32 The number of bacteria phagocytozed in a certain number of corpuscles were counted.

1943 G. N. Papanicolaou & H. F. Traut Diagnosis Uterine Cancer by Vaginal Smear iii. 16 Endometrial cells which are being phagocytosed by histiocytes.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs v. 104 The terminal tubules of the digestive gland..contain..mature cells which phagocytose particles from the lumen and become filled with greenish or yellow food vacuoles.

1973 Nature 21 Sept. 50/2 These cells phagocytosed ‘Zymosan’ particles for at least 6 weeks.

1995 McGill Jrnl. Med. Spring 13/2 At spermiation, the bulk of the late spermatid's cytoplasm, referred to as the residual body, is phagocytosed and disintegrated rapidly by the Sertoli cells lining the seminiferous epithelium.

2004 Jrnl. Dairy Sci. 87 4150 We then hypothesized that..the viable PMN [= polymorphonuclear neutrophils] in milk would efficiently phagocytose and destroy E. coli before establishment of infection.

1907 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 79 400 The number of phagocytosed bacteria were subsequently counted, and the average number per leucocyte taken as the phagocytic index.

1940 Amer. Naturalist 74 137 During this transformation the cells become outstretched and larger and gradually lose their content of dye and of phagocytosed cellular débris.

2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 8449/2 Phagocytosed live mycobacteria often reside in phagosomes that appear to actively exclude the vesicular proton ATPase, resulting in their failure to acidify.

1949 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 6 282 (caption) Phagocytosing, chiefly histiocytic, exudate cells are seen in the lobular framework and portal triads.

1972 Science 2 June 1040/1 [They] have reported that phagocytosing leukocytes take up inorganic iodide.

1999 Functional Ecol. 13 595/1 Heterophils are non-specific immune phagocytosing cells.