Definition of Englobing

1. englobe [v] - See also: englobe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Englobing

englacial
engladden
engladdened
engladdening
engladdens
english
englished
englishes
englishing
englishwoman
englobe
englobed
englobement
englobes
englobing (current term)
engloom
engloomed
englooming
englooms
englue
englued
engluing
englut
engluts
englutted
englutting
englyn
englynion
englyns

Literary usage of Englobing

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"The englobing of the bacilli does aot necessarily mean their destruction. We find in guinea-pigs, for instance, that if tubercle bacilli are introduced into ..."

2. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"They speak of this englobing capacity of the blood as 'opsonic index,' from the word meaning to prepare—to cater for; since the bacilli must first be ..."

3. A Manual of general pathology for students and practitioners by Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow (1898)
"It was known long before varieties of wandering cell were distinguished that leucocytes have the power of englobing particles. ..."

4. Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London by Epidemiological Society of London (1895)
"That these phagocytes are capable of englobing not only foreign particles, but also dead and living bacilli, there can be no doubt. ..."

5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1916)
"... for phagocytosis by supplying opsonin and by facilitating that process by agglutinating the diplococci, the serum greatly promotes the englobing of the ..."

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