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adjectivecapsulated (not comparable)
- not comparableEnclosed in a capsule
Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated) pneumococcus.
1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique1 more example
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
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