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vacuole Definition

vacu·ole (vak′yo̵̅o̅ ōl′)

noun

Biol. a fluid-filled cavity within the cytoplasm of a cell, surrounded by a membrane that usually encloses food, water, or air

Etymology: Fr < L vacuus, empty

vacuole Related Forms
vacuo·lar (vak′yo̵̅o̅ wə lər, vak′yo̵o wō′lər) adjective
vacuole Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: Most plant cells have a single vacuole that takes up much of the cell.
  • contain: Macrophages represented up to 30 % of the cells present and appeared to contain large intracytoplasmic vacuoles.
  • show: Middle Saccamoeba showing contractile vacuole ( CV ) distending the uroid, and the nucleus ( N ).
  • see: We have seen the food vacuoles frequently to support this either in the living state or by inspection of books on the matter.
  • form: Spirostomum forms food vacuoles that are quite large initially.
  • possess: Despite painstaking efforts, the fact that the fresh strains possessed contractile vacuoles while the original did not leaves considerable doubt.

Adjective modifier

  • contractile: Ameba moving toward the bottom left, prominent contractile vacuole toward rear.
  • central: The fixation made evident the cytoplasm that surrounds the great central vacuole.
  • large: Copepod with large oil vacuole, storing energy for the winter months.
  • digestive: Several forms of secondary digestive vacuoles were recognized in these cells.
  • cytoplasmic: Assembly occurs during budding, characteristically into cytoplasmic vacuoles rather than at the cell surface.
  • intracellular: Phagocytosis is an uptake mechanism based on a complex rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton that delivers large extracellular particles into intracellular vacuoles.

Modifies a noun

  • formation: Factors produced by mast cells also caused vacuole formation but not cell death.

Noun used with modifier

  • storage: The implications of these findings in relation to the current model for protein sorting to storage vacuoles are discussed.
  • food: Food vacuoles are used to transport the food through the cell.
  • digestive: Using LCMS techniques, we have already proven that chalcone release takes place in the parasite digestive vacuole.
  • parasite: Using LCMS techniques, we have already proven that chalcone release takes place in the parasite digestive vacuole.
  • plant: There is good evidence that the storage pools of nutrients present in plant vacuoles are compositionally quite distinct in different leaf cells.