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endocytosed

Variant of endocytosis

noun

a process in which a cell engulfs a large molecule, bacterium, etc. and forms a vesicle around it

Related Forms:

endocytic adjective
endocytose transitive verb, intransitive verb endocytosed, endocytosing
endocytotic adjective

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