vacuole
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Introduction
- a clear space in a tissue.
- intracellularly, vacuoles may form as clear spaces around a foreign body serving as a temporary digestive organ for degradation of the foreign body
Clinical significance
- cytoplasmic vacuoles in myeloid & erythroid precursors in VEXAS syndrome
More general terms
More specific terms
Additional terms
- vacuolar ATP synthase (v ATPase) or endomembrane proton pump
- vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein (VPS)
- vacuolar sorting protein
- VPS10 domain-containing protein (VPS10)
References
- ↑ Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.