Usually means: Cellular process of engulfing particles.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (phagocytosis)

noun:  (immunology, cytology) A form of endocytosis in which a cell incorporates a particle by extending pseudopodia and drawing the particle into a vacuole of its cytoplasm.

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