Definition of Encapsule

1. [v -SULED, -SULING, -SULES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encapsule

encankered
encankering
encankers
encantation
encapsidated
encapsidation
encapsulant
encapsulants
encapsulate
encapsulated
encapsulated delusion
encapsulates
encapsulating
encapsulation
encapsulations
encapsule (current term)
encapsuled
encapsules
encapsuling
encapture
encaptured
encaptures
encapturing
encarditis
encarnalize
encarnalized
encarnalizes
encarnalizing
encarpus
encarpuses

Literary usage of Encapsule

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1897)
"In course of time the leucocytes will acquire a tolerance over the invading microbes, and will so be able to encapsule them, a process which occurs ..."

2. Diseases of the Lungs, Heart, and Kidneys by Nathan Smith Davis (1892)
"Cirrhotic inflammation is usually protective, because it tends to encapsule, and thus to limit the spread of the tuberculous infection. ..."

3. The Lancet (1898)
"The/ limit inflammatory processes and they encapsule irritante, they give fixation to parts to which movement would be harmful. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"... precisely as occurs in the physiological peripheral increase of the bones, to encapsule the growth in an osseous shell or case. ..."

5. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"... work their way up grass-stalks and there secrete a sticky, mucoid substance which serves both to encapsule them and to cement them to the grass. ..."

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