sequester in the PONS Dictionary

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Water hyacinth, bulrush and other macrophytes sequester heavy metals.
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Amphibians usually sequester toxins from animals and plants on which they feed, commonly from poisonous insects or poisonous plants.
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In addition to being unaffected by the poison, the caterpillars sequester it in their body, making them highly toxic to predators.
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These bacteria sequester the catabolic anammox reactions to intracellular compartments called anammoxasomes.
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Infected erythrocytes are often sequestered in various human tissues or organs, such as the heart, liver and brain.
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Sometimes juries are sequestered or kept together away from their homes and any media coverage of the trial.
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The quartet travel together for a while, and she reveals she has an illegitimate son that was sequestered from her, allegedly due to her blindness.
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Damaged red cells are phagocytosed and sequestered (taken out of circulation) in the spleen.
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Release of the receptor may also generate soluble receptors which act as decoys by sequestering ligands.
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At this point the metal can be alone or already sequestered by a chelating agent or other compound.
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