macropinocytosis

English

Etymology

macro- +‎ pinocytosis

Noun

macropinocytosis (countable and uncountable, plural macropinocytoses)

  1. (cytology) A form of endocytosis in which a large fluid-filled vesicle, or macropinosome, is pinched off from the cell membrane and brought into the interior of the cell

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