pinocytosis

Term: pinocytosis

Literally meaning: “state of drinking-cell”

Origin: Anc Greek

πίνω/pino(=drink)

+σώμα/soma(body) > σύμα/sima(=corpse). Homer(9th cen) reffered to word "σώμα" with the meaning of the corpse.

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Definition

Pinosytosis is the process of forming  small intracellular fluid-filled vesicle (smaller than phagosomes) after budding off of the plasma membrane through the phenomenon of pinocytosis.