0 present participle of infiltrate
1 to secretly become part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way that group thinks or behaves:
A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.
At about this time the new ideas about "corporate management" had begun to infiltrate (into) local government.
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).
