Golgi apparatus
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Tweet n. A network of stacked membranous vesicles, present in most living cells, that stores and modifies proteins and other macromolecules and transports them within the cell or excretes them from the cell. Also called Golgi body, Golgi complex. [After Camillo Golgi.] |
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