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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pinocytosis /ˌpiːnəʊsʌɪˈtəʊsɪs, ˌpɪnəʊ-, ˌpʌɪnəʊ-/

▶noun Biology the ingestion of liquid into a cell by the budding of small vesicles from the cell membrane.

– origin C19: from Gk pino ‘drink’ + -cytosis on the pattern of phagocytosis.

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