Phagocytosis
Origin
From the German Phagocytosis; equivalent to phagocyte + -osis; compare the French phagocytose.
Full definition of phagocytosis
Noun
phagocytosis
(countable and uncountable; plural phagocytosiss)- (immunology, cytology) The process where a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm.