Medical Term:
exocytosis
Pronunciation: ek′sō-sī-to′sis
Definition:
- The appearance of migrating inflammatory cells in the epidermis.
- The process whereby secretory granules or droplets are released from a cell; the membrane around the granule fuses with the cell membrane, which ruptures, and the secretion is discharged.
Synonym(s): emeiocytosis, emiocytosis
[exo- + G. kytos, cell, + -osis, condition]
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