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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A convoluted invagination of the cytoplasmic membrane in some bacterial cells.
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- n. A folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.
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