noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun

1. 1
   A vesicle formed as an artifact of cell disruption
2. 2
   a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA wordnet

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subcellular fraction

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intact cell

Etymology

From micro- + -some.