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English
Etymology
From macro- + pinocytosis.
Noun
macropinocytosis (countable and uncountable, plural macropinocytoses)
- (cytology) A form of endocytosis in which a large fluid-filled vesicle, or macropinosome, is pinched off from the cell membrane and brought into the interior of the cell
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