pinocytosis

1. 1.

   process by which certain cells can engulf and incorporate droplets of fluid

   Broaderbodily process

Other forms of pinocytosis

plural

pinocytosises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pinocytosis

What does pinocytosis mean?

pinocytosis means "process by which certain cells can engulf and incorporate droplets of fluid".

How many syllables are in pinocytosis?

pinocytosis has 5 syllables: pi-no-cy-to-sis. The stress falls on "cy".

Is pinocytosis a common word?

pinocytosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.