Pinocytosis
Meaning of Pinocytosis
noun
the ingestion of liquid into a cell by the budding of small vesicles from the cell membrane.
late 19th century: from Greek pino ‘drink’ + -cytosis on the pattern of phagocytosis .
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Hyphenation of Pinocytosis
Pinocy-to-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- Pinocytosis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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