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phagokinetic

phagokinetic adjective: describing the tracks left as a motile cell moves across a surface, engulfing and absorbing nanoparticles or quantum dots as it moves.

Adjective

phagokinetic (not comparable)

  1. Describing the tracks left as a motile cell moves across a surface, engulfing and absorbing nanoparticles or quantum dots as it moves

Origin of phagokinetic

From phago- + kinetic.

Questions about phagokinetic

What does phagokinetic mean?
Phagokinetic means describing the tracks left as a motile cell moves across a surface, engulfing and absorbing nanoparticles or quantum dots as it moves.
What part of speech is phagokinetic?
Phagokinetic is an adjective.

Words near phagokinetic in the dictionary

  1. phagodeterrent
  2. phagodeterrents
  3. phagodynamometer
  4. phagodynamometers
  5. phagokinesis
  6. phagokinetic
  7. phagology
  8. phagolyososome
  9. phagolysis
  10. phagolysosomal
  11. phagolysosome

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