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  • noun Plural form of vacuole.

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Examples

  • For this I noted at equal intervals of time the successive positions of certain vacuoles from which it was then possible, at one's leisure, to find again the orientation of the sphere at each of these moments and to calculate its rotation from one moment to the next.

    Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • This early phase progresses to fluid accumulation in the cells making them pale-staining or showing vacuoles, which is known to the pathologist as "cloudy swelling" or "hydropic degeneration".

    Cell damage from toxicity and tissue repair 2007

  • Accumulation of holes, called vacuoles, inside a cell, which are associated with protein aggregation and disrupted regulation of normal protein degradation processes following exposure of cells to the HSP70 inhibitor.

    Newswise: Latest News 2009

  • The cells in those needles contain large cavities called vacuoles, designed to hold water.

    O Tannenbaum ewillett 2009

  • Presumably the lipid et cetera material that clad the first cellular like inorganic open vent vacuoles of materials such as ZnS less likely the organic destructive FeS originated from Fischer-Tropsch like processes instead of Zn world photosynthesis of CO2 to formic acid.

    New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System | Universe Today 2010

  • The bacteria that grew in severely P-depleted and As-enriched conditions were identified as members of a halophile salt-loving family already known to accumulate intracellular As. When deprived of P, they grew slowly and looked bloated because they were full of vacuoles, cellular organelles that manage waste and grow larger and more numerous when cells are under stress.

    Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Arsenic and Odd Lace Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010

  • The bacteria that grew in severely P-depleted and As-enriched conditions were identified as members of a halophile salt-loving family already known to accumulate intracellular As. When deprived of P, they grew slowly and looked bloated because they were full of vacuoles, cellular organelles that manage waste and grow larger and more numerous when cells are under stress.

    Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Arsenic and Odd Lace Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010

  • When deprived of P, they grew slowly and looked bloated because they were full of vacuoles, cellular organelles that manage waste and grow larger and more numerous when cells are under stress.

    Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Arsenic and Odd Lace Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010

  • Protists use contractile vacuoles to remove excess water from their cells.

    Protozoa 2008

  • The same is true for pinocytosis (the "drinking" of organic substances) and the release of wastes that are contained in contractile vacuoles.

    Protozoa 2008

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