caveola
noun
cav·e·o·la
ˌka-vē-ˈō-lə
plural caveolae
ˌka-vē-ˈō-ˌlē
: a flask-shaped invagination of a cell's plasma membrane that is involved especially in endocytosis by pinching off and forming vesicles in the cytoplasm
caveolar
adjective
… clearly of benefit to pathogens, caveolae-dependent endocytosis does not feed into the lysosome pathway and does not result in the degradation of the contents of caveolar vesicles.
—Jeoung-Sook Shin and Soman N. Abraham
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