n.
A complex of parallel, flattened saccules, vesicles, and vacuoles that lies adjacent to the nucleus of a cell and is concerned with the formation of secretions within the cell. Also called Golgi apparatus.
Golgi complex
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a net-like structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Synonyms: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, dictyosome
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