granulopexy

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noun

The fixation of granules circulating in the blood, most notably by the reticuloendothelial system.

OriginFrench granulopexie →
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Meanings

noungranulopexy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableimmunologyThe fixation of granules circulating in the blood, most notably by the reticuloendothelial system.

    It is possible that fixation of granules (granulopexy) is partly as a result of attraction when phagocytes are in contact with solid structures (thigmo-reaction)

    1968, International Series of Monographs on Pure and Applied Biology: Division, Zoology, Pergamon Press, page 212
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    granulopexy may be observed sometimes in cells that do not belong to the R.E.S.: for example, we all know that liver and kidney cells can appropriate some particulate dyestuffs

    1969, Fondazione Carlo Erba, Medicine, Biology, and Surgery at the Carlo Erba Foundation: Proceedings of the First 5 Years' Symposia, Carlo Erba Foundation, page 1014

Origin

  1. Frenchgranulopexie
  2. Englishgranulopexy

Equivalent to granulo- + -pexy. Borrowed from French granulopexie, coined by Biozzi et al. in 1948, following work by Nicholas Jancsó, who noted that injection of histamine causes endothelial cells to pick up stray particles.

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