| digestive vacuole | medical dictionary |
Intracellular vacuole into which lysosomal enzymes are discharged and digestion of the contents occurs. More commonly referred to as a secondary lysosome.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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