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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)

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Literary usage of Phagosome

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1. Air Quality Criteria for Oxides of Nitrogenby Dennis J. Kotchmar by Dennis J. Kotchmar (1996)
"During the phagocytosis process, AMs release oxygen radicals and enzymes either into the phagosome or ..."

2. Biologic Markers in Pulmonary Toxicology by National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Pulmonary Toxicology (1989)
"Once phagocytosis is completed, killing of an ingested organism is mediated by phagosome- lysosome fusion, degranulation, and the elaboration of digestive ..."

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