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- noun The destruction of phagocytes, as by cytotoxins.
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hernesheir commented on the word phagolysis
This term was proposed by the Russian (Ukrainian) biologist Élie Metchnikoff, the discoverer of phagocytosis and co-winner of the 1908 Nobel prize in Physiology.
February 22, 2011