phagolysosomen.

1963 W. Straus in A. V. S. de Reuck & M. P. Cameron Lysosomes 166 The term ‘phagosomes’ was used to characterize the segregating ability of granules; the term ‘lysosomes’ was used to indicate the contents of hydrolytic enzymes in the granules.., and the terms ‘lyso-phagosomes’ or ‘phago-lysosomes’ were used when both these properties were described for the same granules.

1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol. xxiii. 584/1 The phagolysosome, containing the remains of the foreign object is then either eliminated from the cell or is left in the cytoplasm.

1994 Science 29 July 613/1 Shigella flexneri undergoes a different interaction with its host to cause dysentery; these bacteria are taken up in phagolysosomes and must exit from this vacuole into the cytoplasm to cause disease.

2002 Nature 24 Jan. 373/1 When B. anthracis spores are inhaled they lodge in the lungs, where they are ingested by macrophages... The spores are not destroyed but germinate and multiply within membranous compartments called phagolysosomes in macrophages.

1973 Investigative Ophthalmol. 12 635 (title) The phagolysomal [sic] system of the pigment epithelium.]

1975 Nature 3 July 48/2 The phagolysosomal membrane was invariably applied closely to the surface of the enclosed yeast cell.

1985 Science 13 Sept. 1101/1 The data presented here demonstrate a potentially critical adaptation of L. donovani amastigotes, permitting growth in the phagolysosomal compartment of infected macrophages.

2004 Infection & Immunity 76 3524 Fc-dependent antibodies protected against R[ickettsia] conorii infection of endothelium and macrophages by opsonization that inhibited phagosomal escape and resulted in phagolysosomal killing.