phagocytable, a. Biol.
(ˈfægəsaɪtəb(ə)l)
[f. phagocyte v. + -able.]
Susceptible to phagocytosis. Hence ˌphagocytaˈbility.
| 1911 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Nov. 1579/2 Pneumonic leukocytes would take up more easily phagocytable pneumococci than normal leukocytes. 1915 Thomas & 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’. 1921 Wright & Colebrook Technique Teat & Capillary Glass Tube (ed. 2) ix. 208 (heading) Requirements in the matter of the number and phagocytability of the microbes employed in opsonic testing. 1927 Jrnl. Bacteriol. XIII. 40 Microbic dissociation in vivo would serve to transform a virulent but non-phagocytable organism into a non-virulent but phagocytable organism. Ibid., 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. |