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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A body differing from a microsome in surrounding a cavity filled with dissolved substances. Crato. Physodes are treated by Strassburger as merely a class of microsomes.

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  • noun A form of microsome present in the cytoplasm of some algae

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