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phagocytosis
phagocytosis
English
Noun
phagocytosis (countable and uncountable, plural phagocytoses)
- (immunology, cytology) The process where a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm.
Translations
the process by which a cell internalises foreign bodies
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