DIAPEDESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diapedesis mean? 

• DIAPEDESIS (noun)
  The noun DIAPEDESIS has 1 sense:

1. passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue

  Familiarity information: DIAPEDESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAPEDESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Passage of blood cells (especially white blood cells) through intact capillary walls and into the surrounding tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("diapedesis" is a kind of...):

organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)

 Context examples 

Flattening of the cells and diapedesis, adhering leukocytes crawl to an intercellular junction of the endothelium and then transmigrate to or even through the intercellular matrix.

(Lymphocyte Adhesion Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

During this diapedesis of leukocytes, the leukocytes bind to endothelial cell adhesion molecules (CAM) and then migrate across the vascular endothelium.

(Leukocyte Transendothelial Migration Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)