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GOLGI BODY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Golgi body mean?
• GOLGI BODY (noun)
The noun GOLGI BODY has 1 sense:
1. a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Familiarity information: GOLGI BODY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
dictyosome; Golgi apparatus; Golgi body; Golgi complex
Hypernyms ("Golgi body" is a kind of...):
cyst; vesicle (a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid))
Holonyms ("Golgi body" is a part of...):
cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)
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