infiltration

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Affecting and influencing
across-the-board
affect
applicability
be/fall under someone's influence/spellidiom
bear on something
colour
conflict
ear
inroad
inspiration
instrumental
instrumentality
instrumentally
pen
rail
sphere of influence
spill
spill over
sportswashing
start (something) off

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Slow and moving slowly
Arriving, entering and invading

Examples of infiltrating

infiltrating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

These chemokines might be secreted by other infiltrating cells and also by stromal and epithelial cells within the tissue.
Infestation increased the numbers of lymphocytes infiltrating the skin epidermis and indicated immunostimulation.
Furthermore, they suggest that cytokines and chemokines made by infiltrating leukocytes and resident stromal cells contribute to this switch.
An immune-inflammatory reaction is thought to be involved, with lymphocytes infiltrating the vessel wall.
Ultrasound can estimate the pathologic size of infiltrating ductal carcinoma.
This favourable prognosis might reflect the ability of infiltrating neutrophils to stimulate tumour toxicity depending on the cytokine makeup of the tumour.
The amounts of radiant flux reaching the soil surface and evaporation were then reduced and rainwater infiltrating into the soil profile was increased.
Numerous digenean cysts were adjacent to, but not infiltrating, the liver and pancreas and within the mesentery surrounding the gastrointestinal tract (fig. 2).
Do we not see here the new empirical attitude of fourteenth-century nominalism infiltrating the seemingly local field of music making?
Finally, it might be possible to identify an antigen that is not specifically found on endometriosis tissue, but rather on infiltrating immune cells.
Thus, strategies that block the actions of these normal resident and/or infiltrating cells are beginning to be exploited in the clinic.
As the feeding advanced there was an increase in the proportion of infiltrating mononuclear cells and basophils and a decrease in the proportion of eosinophils.
Salts deposited on the surface will be dissolved and transported with water infiltrating through the soil profile.
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