phagosome

[fag-uh-sohm]

phag·o·some

[fag-uh-sohm]
noun
a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.

Origin:
1955–60; phago- + -some3
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Phagosome is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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phagosome phag·o·some (fāg'ə-sōm')
n.
A membrane-bound vesicle formed in a cell by an inward folding of the cell membrane to hold foreign matter taken into the cell by phagocytosis.

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