0 present participle of scavenge --
1 to look for or get food or other objects in other people's rubbish: --
They collected rates with which they maintained a police force and a scavenging department.
The presence of the free radical scavenging enzymes in parasitic organisms has been linked with immunomodulation.
We report the first quantitative study to assess the potential effects of scavenging on measurement of predation within a carabid-slug system.
Scavenging of dead beetles by ants was greatest with small beetles (< 15 mm long) uncontaminated with insecticide.
Protection by free oxygen radical scavenging enzymes against glucoseinduced embryonic malformations in vitro.
Normally, the brain has efficient scavenging systems that maintain a low concentration of the factors necessary for these reactions to occur.
The writers show that the preferred methods of dealing with waste relied heavily on the natural scavenging properties of the environment.
Thus, desiccation sensitivity may result from an inadequate provision of free radical scavenging mechanisms.
