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Phagocytosis vs Viropexis - What's the difference?

phagocytosis | viropexis |

As nouns the difference between viropexis and phagocytosis

is that viropexis is the process whereby certain viruses become attached to a cell wall and are incorporated into the cell by phagocytosis while phagocytosis is the process where a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm.

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.

    • viropexis

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia viropexis) (-)
  • (biology) The process whereby certain viruses become attached to a cell wall and are incorporated into the cell by phagocytosis