Medical Definition of Multilamellar body
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| A specialised region of various protozoans in which phagocytosis is likely to occur.
Often there is a clear concentration of microtubules or/and microfilaments in the region of the cytostome. In ciliates there may be a specialised arrangement of cilia around the cytostome.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Multilamellar Body
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