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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
contractile vacuole complex +    
cytoplasmic vesicle +     
vacuole +     
acrosomal matrix  
aleurone grain +  
amorphous vesicle 
autophagosome +   
carotenoid vesicle 
chitosome +   
chloroplast vesicle 
ciliary vesicle 
coated vesicle +   
contractile vacuole +  
A specialized vacuole of eukaryotic cells, especially Protozoa, that fills with water from the cytoplasm and then discharges this externally by the opening of contractile vacuole pores. One of its functions is osmoregulatory.
Cvt vesicle +  
cytoplasmic vesicle lumen +   
cytoplasmic vesicle membrane +   
endocytic vesicle +   
endosome +   
esterosome +  
fusiform vesicle 
GARP complex  
Golgi-associated vesicle +   
granular vesicle +   
gut granule +  
lytic vacuole +   
merozoite dense granule +  
micropexophagy-specific membrane apparatus 
mitochondrion-derived vesicle  
multivesicular body, internal vesicle +   
osmiophilic body 
pericanalicular vesicle 
pigment granule +   
plant-type vacuole +  
plasma membrane light-harvesting complex +  
post-lysosomal vacuole 
secretory vesicle +   
sperm cytoplasmic droplet  
spongiome 
storage vacuole +   
synaptic vesicle protein transport vesicle 
transport vesicle +   
vacuolar lumen +   
vacuolar membrane +   

Synonyms
Related Synonyms: central bladder ;   central vacuole
Xrefs: Wikipedia:Contractile_vacuole
Definition Sources: GOC:jl, PMID:10503189, PMID:23890380

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