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phag·o·cy·to·sis    Audio Help   [fag-uh-sahy-toh-sis] Pronunciation Key
–noun
Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.

[Origin: 1890–95; phagocyte + -osis]
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phagocytosis: see endocytosis. 
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