capsulated

English

Adjective

capsulated (not comparable)

1. Enclosed in a capsule
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique‎:

     Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated) pneumococcus.

Derived terms

• microcapsulated
• nanocapsulated
• noncapsulated
• uncapsulated

Anagrams

• scapulated