Medical Definition of Phagolysis

1. 1. Destruction of phagocytes, or leukocytes, occurring in the process of blood coagulation or as the result of the introduction of certain antagonistic foreign substances into the body. Synonym: phagolysis. 2. A spontaneous breaking down of the phagocytes, preliminary (according to Metchnikoff) to the liberation of cytase, or complement. Origin: phagocyte + G. Lysis, dissolution (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phagolysis

phagocytizes
phagocytizing
phagocytoblast
phagocytolysis
phagocytolytic
phagocytose
phagocytose
phagocytosed
phagocytoses
phagocytosing
phagocytosis
phagocytosis
phagocytosis view phagocytosis
phagocytotic
phagodynamometer
phagolysis (current term)
phagolysosome
phagolytic
phagomania
phagophobia
phagosome
phagosome
phagosomes
phagotype
Phagun
phainopepla
phaius
phakic eye
phako-
phakoma

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