prophagocytic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From pro- + phagocytic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more prophagocytic (comparative)
most prophagocytic (superlative)