Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A network of stacked membranous vesicles, present in most living cells, that stores and modifies proteins and other macromolecules and transports them within the cell or excretes them from the cell.
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- noun A
network ofmembranes in thecytoplasm of thoseanimal cells that producesecretions
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- noun a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Camillo Golgi.]
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From Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and scientist.
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