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vacuole

noun as in cell

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Checking the ill animals’ brains revealed swathes of unnatural microscopic holes, or vacuoles.

This is done by pulsation of the vacuole, which ultimately bursts, passing fluid waste to the outside.

These masses of food seem to be inclosed within a little area containing fluid, called a vacuole.

Waste nitrogenous products formed within the cell when work is done are passed out by means of the contractile vacuole.

Spores with two polar-capsules, and without an iodinophilous vacuole in the sporoplasm.

Contractile vacuole absent; the nucleus is spherical and contains many large chromatin granules.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vacuole, such as: bacterium, egg, germ, unit, corpuscle, and embryo.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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