English Explanatory Dictionary

porosome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of many cup-shaped structures in the cell membranes of eukaryotic cells where vesicles dock in the process of vesicle fusion and secretion.

Word forms

porosome porosomes

Etymology

From poro- + -some.

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