different between vesicle vs macropinocytosis

English

Etymology

From Middle French vesicule, from Latin v?s?cula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?s?k?l/, /?vi?s?k?l/
• Hyphenation: ves?i?cle
• Homophone: vesical (for some pronunciations)

Noun

vesicle (plural vesicles)

1. (cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
2. A small bladder-like cell or cavity; a vesicula.
3. (anatomy) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.
4. (anatomy) A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
5. (geology) A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 51:

     It frequently contains holes, or vesicles, especially nearer the surface of a flow where gas has escaped.

Derived terms

Related terms

• vesica
• vesication
• vesicula
• vesicular
• vesiculation

Translations

English

Etymology

macro- +? pinocytosis

Noun

macropinocytosis (countable and uncountable, plural macropinocytoses)

1. (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

Derived terms

• macropinocytic
• macropinocytose
• macropinocytotic

Related terms

• macropinosome
• pinocytosis

See also

• phagocytosis
• macropinocytosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia