vesicle

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As the pocket expands, it wraps around the virus and forms a vesicle.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

When the team applied zap-and-freeze to the human tissue samples, they found the same vesicle recycling steps occurring in human neurons.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

In certain cases, the researchers also varied the pH and the ratios of the components to better understand how these factors impacted vesicle formation.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Indigestible waste material is ejected from the cell when an exocytic vesicle fuses with the plasma membrane.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, Ð in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah