Definition of Phagosome

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Phagosome

1. A membrane-bound cytoplasmic vesicle that forms around a particle (bacterial or other) by invagination of phagocytised material. It forms within the phagocyte that engulfed it, then separates from the cell membrane, and fuses with and receives the contents of cytoplasmic granules (lysosomes), thus forming a phagolysosome, in which the hydrolytic enzymes of the lysosome digest the phagocytised material. Origin: L. Phagedaena, Gr Phago, To eat. Soma, body (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phagosome

phagocytose
phagocytosed
phagocytoses
phagocytosing
phagocytosis
phagocytosis
phagocytosis view phagocytosis
phagocytotic
phagodynamometer
phagolysis
phagolysosome
phagolytic
phagomania
phagophobia
phagosome (current term)
phagosome (current term)
phagosomes
phagotype
Phagun
phainopepla
phaius
phakic eye
phako-
phakoma
phakomatoses
phakomatosis
phakoscope
Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax
Phalacrocorax carbo

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