Medical Definition of Gas vacuole

1. A prokaryotic cellular organelle consisting of cylindrical vesicles around 75 x 300nm, often in clusters. The wall of the gas vacuole, which is permeable to gases but not to water, is formed from a monolayer of a single protein. Gas vacuoles are found mainly in planktonic cyanobacteria and their prime function is to make the bacterium buoyant. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas Vacuole

gas retinopexy
gas ring
gas scavengers
gas service
gas shell
gas shift process
gas station
gas stove
gas system
gas tank
gas thermometer
gas thermometer
gas turbine
gas turbine
gas up
gas vacuole (current term)
gas vesicle
gas well
gat
gatc
Gatch
Gatch bed
gate
gate
gate-control hypothesis
gate-control theory
gate-crash
gate-crashing
gateau
gateaus

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