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Digestion within a cell of a substance taken in by phagocytosis from the cell's environment.
heterophagy
| Medical Dictionary: het·er·oph·a·gy |
(hĕt'ə-rŏf'ə-jē)
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The taking into a cell of exogenous material by phagocytosis or pinocytosis and the digestion of the ingested material after fusion of the newly formed vacuole with a lysosome.
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