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phagostimulants

phagostimulants is the plural of phagostimulant.

Meaning of phagostimulant

Noun

phagostimulant (plural phagostimulants)

  1. Any substance that stimulates feeding in insects and other arthropods.
  2. Any material that stimulates the production of phagocytes.
    • The infectious meal was prepared with fresh washed bovine red cells, viral supernatant (1:2) and adenosine triphosphate at 5 mM as phagostimulant.2015 September 16, “Use of Centrifugal Filter Devices to Concentrate Dengue Virus in Mosquito per os Infection Experiments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about phagostimulants

What is phagostimulants the plural of?
Phagostimulants is the plural of phagostimulant.

Words near phagostimulants in the dictionary

  1. phagosensors
  2. phagosomal
  3. phagosome
  4. phagosomes
  5. phagostimulant
  6. phagostimulants
  7. phagostimulating
  8. phagostimulation
  9. phagostimulatory
  10. phagotope
  11. phagotroph

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