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Phagocytosis vs Heterophagy - What's the difference?

phagocytosis | heterophagy |

As nouns the difference between phagocytosis and heterophagy

is that phagocytosis is the process where a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm while heterophagy is the digestion, within a cell, of material ingested via phagocytosis or pinocytosis.

phagocytosis

English

(wikipedia phagocytosis)

Noun

  • (immunology, cytology) The process where a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm.

    • heterophagy

    English

    Noun

  • (biology) The digestion, within a cell, of material ingested via phagocytosis or pinocytosis