प्रक्रिया जिसमें फागोसाइट्स ने सूक्ष्मजीवों और सेलुलर मलबे को पचाना और पचता है; संक्रमण के खिलाफ एक महत्वपूर्ण रक्षा

phagocytosis's Usage Examples:

Numerous polymorphonuclear leucocytes and a few mononuclear cells, one of which has taken up a leucocyte into its interior (phagocytosis).

Titus, M. A. (1999) A class VII unconventional myosin is required for phagocytosis.

ersten Entwicklungsphasen einiger Cynipidengallen (Amsterdam, 1882); Bordet, " Phagocytosis," Ann.

A further application of the facts of chemiotaxis and phagocytosis has been made by Metchnikoff to the case of Inflammation.

The behaviour of certain cells, especially leucocytes, with regard to anti-bacterial sera, the presence of phagocytosis cannot be regarded as the essence of immunity, but rather the evidence of its existence.

There they show marked phagocytosis, attacking and taking up into their interior and destroying the micro-organisms in large numbers.

Even when they have passed through an abrasion in the skin or through the mucous membranes and enter the blood they are met, in some instances, by a toxic action of the blood itself upon them; and in others they are attacked by the white corpuscles, which destroy them, eat them up, and digest them, the process being known as phagocytosis.

Sexton D.W., Blaylock M.G. and Walsh G.M. (2004) Phagocytosis of apoptotic eosinophils but not neutrophils by bronchial epithelial cells.

This opsonin of normal serum is very labile, being rapidly destroyed at 55° C.; that is, a serum heated at this temperature has practically no greater effect in aiding phagocytosis than normal salt solution has.

He also showed that the development of artificial immunity is attended by the appearance of phagocytosis; also, when an anti-serum is injected into an animal, the phagocytes which formerly were indifferent might move towards and destroy the bacteria.

phagocytosis's Meaning':

process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection

Synonyms:

activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process,

Antonyms:

assembly, discontinuation, inactivity, discontinuance, activation,