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Definition of Microphage
1. Noun. A neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria).
Definition of Microphage
1. Noun. (biology) A small phagocyte, especially a polymorphonuclear leucocyte ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Microphage
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Microphage
1. A polymorphonuclear leukocyte that is phagocytic. See: phagocyte. Synonym: microphagocyte. Origin: micro-+ phag(ocyte) (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microphage
Literary usage of Microphage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Immunity in Infective Diseases by Elie Metchnikoff (1907)
"... developed inside a microphage torn a vaccinated guinea-pig. ¥ ,:.'. ...
The vibrios have ruptured the microphage and scattered themselves in the fluid. ..."
2. Infection, Immunity and Serum Therapy: In Relation to the Infectious by Howard Taylor Ricketts (1908)
"... concerned specially in the resorp- tion of tissue cells and in immunity to
certain chronic diseases, as tuberculosis and leprosy, whereas the microphage ..."
3. Infection, Immunity and Serum Therapy: In Relation to the Infectious by Howard Taylor Ricketts (1906)
"Fixators Product of microphage. Metchnikoff believes that fixators, ... are produced
by the microphage. That the lymph- oid organs may form certain fixators ..."
4. Infection, immunity and serum therapy in relation to the infectious diseases by Howard Taylor Ricketts, George Frederick Dick (1913)
"... chronic diseases, as tuberculosis and leprosy, whereas the microphage is the
cell which is conspicuously antimicrobic in relation to acute infections. ..."
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