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capsulated

capsulated adjective: enclosed in a capsule.

Adjective

capsulated (not comparable)

  1. Enclosed in a capsule
    • If the colonizing population of the ancestral capsulated strains is too small, a sufficient number of unencapsulated variants (mutants) may not be generated and invasion will not take place.2001 May 11, Bruce R. Levin, Rustom Antia, “Why We Don't Get Sick: The Within-Host Population Dynamics of Bacterial Infections”, in Science, volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1112–1115
    • Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated) pneumococcus.1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique

Words formed from capsulated

Questions about capsulated

What does capsulated mean?
Capsulated means enclosed in a capsule.
What part of speech is capsulated?
Capsulated is an adjective.

Words near capsulated in the dictionary

  1. capsular ligament
  2. capsular ligaments
  3. capsularly
  4. capsulary
  5. capsulate
  6. capsulated
  7. capsulates
  8. capsulating
  9. capsulation
  10. capsulations
  11. capsule

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