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Definition of Phagocytes
1. phagocyte [n] - See also: phagocyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phagocytes
Literary usage of Phagocytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Numbers of phagocytes may be found at work, in this direction, ... Hence we may
regard the phagocytes as acting as the scavengers of the tissues. ..."
2. Immunity in Infective Diseases by Elie Metchnikoff (1907)
"phagocytes are capable of ingesting living and virulent micro-organisms.—The
digestion of micro-organisms in phagocytes is most often effected in a feebly ..."
3. Understanding the Immune System by Lydia Woods Schindler (1991)
"phagocytes, Granulocytes, and their Relatives Many cytokines are initially ...
Some phagocytes also have the ability to present antigen to lymphocytes. ..."
4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1906)
"He therefore called these white or colourless corpuscles " phagocytes," the
eater-cells, and in his beautiful book on Inflammation, published twenty years ..."
5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1896)
"Great increase in percentage of phagocytes. Usually, a marked increase in ...
phagocytes with indistinct cell contour, and granules few in number, ..."
6. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"(c) The phagocytes.—The brilliant researches of Metchnikoff * have definitely
established the active share in combating bacterial invasion taken by certain ..."
7. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1914)
"(c) The phagocytes.—The brilliant researches of Metchnikoff * have definitely
established the active share in combating bacterial invasion taken by certain ..."
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