intracellular digestion
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Related to intracellular digestion: intercellular digestion
intracellular digestion
[¦in·trə′sel·yə·lər di′jes·chən] (physiology)
Digestion which takes place within the cytoplasm of the organism, as in many unicellular protozoans.
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