pinosome

Term: pinosome

Literally meaning: “drinking body(vesicle)”

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.

Coined/History

Definition

Pinosome is a small intracellular  fluid-filled vesicle (smaller than phagosomes) formed by the budding off of  the plasma membrane through the process of pinocytosis.