phagocytose, v. Biol.
(fægəˈsaɪtəʊz, -s)
Also -oze.
[Back-formation from phagocytosis.]
trans. To engulf or absorb (a cell or particle) like a phagocyte, so as to isolate or destroy it.
| 1912 R. W. Allen Vaccine Therapy (ed. 4) i. 32 The number of bacteria phagocytozed in a certain number of corpuscles were counted. 1943 Papanicolaou & Traut Diagnosis Uterine Cancer by Vaginal Smear iii. 16 Endometrial cells which are being phagocytized by histiocytes. 1973 Nature 21 Sept. 50/2 These cells phagocytosed ‘Zymosan’ particles for at least 6 weeks. 1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol. xxiii. 582/1 The neutrophil..is capable of actively phagocytozing foreign material. |
Hence ˈphagocytosed, ˈphagocyˌtosing ppl. adjs.
| 1912 R. W. Allen Vaccine Therapy (ed. 4) i. 42 The phagocytosed bacteria should stain clearly. 1958 J. K. Frost in E. & E. R. Novak Gynecol. & Obstetr. Path. (ed. 4) xxxv. 626 (heading) Hypersecretory vacuoles filled with phagocytosing neutrophils. 1970 Nature 1 Aug. 511/1 These cells did not contain any phagocytosed particles, such as aluminium phosphate. 1972 Science 2 June 1040/1 [They] have reported that phagocytosing leukocytes take up inorganic iodide. |