VACUOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vacuole mean? 

• VACUOLE (noun)
  The noun VACUOLE has 1 sense:

1. a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell

  Familiarity information: VACUOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VACUOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("vacuole" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Holonyms ("vacuole" is a part of...):

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

 Context examples 

It is generally associated with macrophages with small lipid vacuoles in their cytoplasm and multinucleated giant cells.

(Fat Necrosis of the Mouse Mammary Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A morphologic finding referring to the presence of vacuoles within the cytoplasm of the cells.

(Cytoplasmic Vacuolation, NCI Thesaurus)

Cellular uptake of extracellular materials within membrane-limited vacuoles or microvesicles.

(Endocytotic Process, NCI Thesaurus)

An acquired or hereditary chronic inflammatory disorder of the muscles characterized by the morphologic finding of vacuoles and filamentous inclusions in the muscle tissues.

(Inclusion Body Myositis, NCI Thesaurus)

Internalized parasites escape from the parasitophorous vacuole using secreted pore-forming TcTOX molecule and replicate in the cytosol.

(Chagas Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Morphologically it is characterized by the presence of malignant glandular cells containing glycogen vacuoles which are usually subnuclear and reminiscent of early secretory endometrium.

(Endometrial Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma, Secretory Variant, NCI Thesaurus)

Glycosides are stored in the vacuoles and require cytoplasmic enzymatic activation to release cyanide aglycone from the glycone.

(Cyanogenic glucoside, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenocarcinoma of the breast characterized by the presence of two intermingled cellular components: cells with abundant granular, eosinophilic cytoplasm, and cells with abundant cytoplasm containing fine empty vacuoles.

(Apocrine Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic derivative of quinolyl with chemotherapeutic and antibiotic properties, Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate acts against erythrocytic malarial parasites (Plasmodium vivax, ovale, and malariae) by concentrating in food vacuoles.

(Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)