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phagosome: Meaning and Definition of

phag•o•some

Pronunciation: (fag'u-sōm"), [key]
— n.
  1. a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
phagocytosis -phagous
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