Associations to the word «Phagocytosis»

Wiktionary

PHAGOCYTOSIS, noun. (immunology) (cytology) The process where a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm.

Dictionary definition

PHAGOCYTOSIS, noun. Process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope