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prophagocytic

prophagocytic adjective: promoting phagocytic activity.

Adjective

prophagocytic (comparative more prophagocytic, superlative most prophagocytic)

  1. Promoting phagocytic activity.
    • As previously reported, RBCs gradually lose CD47 expression as they age, lose sialic acids from glycoproteins and glycolipids, and reorganize membrane phospholipids in a manner that presumably accumulates prophagocytic signals, leading to their elimination by phagocytosis.2015 September 22, “Pre-Clinical Development of a Humanized Anti-CD47 Antibody with Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Potential”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of prophagocytic

comparativemore prophagocytic
superlativemost prophagocytic

Origin of prophagocytic

From pro- + phagocytic.

Questions about prophagocytic

What does prophagocytic mean?
Prophagocytic means promoting phagocytic activity.
What part of speech is prophagocytic?
Prophagocytic is an adjective.

Words near prophagocytic in the dictionary

  1. prophaethontid
  2. prophaethontids
  3. prophage
  4. prophages
  5. prophagic
  6. prophagocytic
  7. prophalangopsid
  8. prophalangopsids
  9. prophalloin
  10. propham
  11. prophanation

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