Phagocytosis

Phagocytosis

Research domain

Predation
Parasitology

Definition

Phagocytosis is the uptake of food particles by embracement through pseudopodia or similar mobile cytoplasmic processes; if the organism feeds on cells, the cell is taken
up completely and all at once. Phagocytosis is applied by predators or by organisms which feed on detritus. Schnepf and Deichgräber 1984.