Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The formation of vacuoles; the state of being vacuolated; a system of vacuoles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Formation into, or multiplication of, vacuoles.
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- noun medicine, biology The formation of
vacuoles in a cellular tissue
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- noun the state of having become filled with vacuoles
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Examples
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The morbid changes consist of an inflammation of the papillary region of the derma, leading to [oe] dema and vacuolation of the constituent cells of the epidermis, followed by their complete destruction in places and their abnormal proliferation in others (Fordyce).
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Brominated noscapine analogs when added to macrophages significantly induced autophagy as evident by extensive autophagy-related vacuolation in cytoplasm and upregulation of microtubule-associated light-chain protein,
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010
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Drug induced autophagy was noted with increased vacuolation in the cytoplasm.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010
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Brominated noscapine analogs when added to macrophages significantly induced autophagy as evident by extensive autophagy-related vacuolation in cytoplasm and upregulation of microtubule-associated light-chain protein,
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010
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There was good preservation of myocyte structure with no myofibrillary disarray, myocyte hypertrophy, vacuolation or attenuation.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010
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Drug induced autophagy was noted with increased vacuolation in the cytoplasm.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010
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. . variable vacuolation in the background neuropil.
Life Support Tess Gerritsen 1997
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We have found, on microscopic examination in such cases, in addition to these small extravasations, collections of colloid bodies, patches of miliary sclerosis, and chromatolysis and vacuolation of nerve-cells. [
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Electron microscopy data showed that brominated noscapine analogs induced extensive autophagy-related vacuolation in human macrophages THP-1 (
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010
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Electron microscopy data showed that brominated noscapine analogs induced extensive autophagy-related vacuolation in human macrophages THP-1 (
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Susu Zughaier et al. 2010
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