trophospongium

noun

troph·​o·​spon·​gium

-pän-

plural -s

: an intracellular canal system variously held to be the Golgi apparatus, ingrowths of surrounding cells, or an observational artifact

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from troph- + -spongium

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