vacuole
IPA: vˈækjuɫ
noun
- (cytology) A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's cytoplasm.
- A small empty or air-filled space or vacuity.
Examples of "vacuole" in Sentences
- But it's a 6-brane vacuole, and at the press of a button, it's a year later.
- In fact, the parasite itself grabs the drug and concentrates it ten-thousand-fold in its digestive vacuole.
- They wrap themselves around the food particle and once enclosed it is embedded within a food vacuole for digestion.
- As water evaporates out of the cell, the cell draws more water into the vacuole from other cells deeper inside the tree.
- Mutations in the P. falciparum digestive vacuole transmembrane protein PfCRT and evidence for their role in chloroquine resistance.
- Mutations in the P. falciparum digestive vacuole transmmembrane proteins PfCRT and evidence for their role in cholorquine resistance.
- Ciliates have permanent contractile vacuole pathways and pores where amoebas will release them from any point along the surface of its body.
- The 76th amino acid may contribute to the PfCRT's function as a CQR determinant in P. falciparum by virtue of its effect on the CQ transport activity across the food vacuole membrane.
- In the higher plants, at least, a nucleus occurs embedded in it; a watery liquid holding salts and saccharine substances in solution fills the space called the vacuole, inclosed by the protoplasm.
- The protoplasm is more or less extensively excavated by fluid spaces, vacuoles; one clearer circular space or vacuole, which is invariably present, appears at intervals, enlarges gradually, and then vanishes abruptly, to reappear after a brief interval; this is called the contractile vacuole (c.v.).