Phagocytosis is the process by which a cell engulfs and internalizes a large particle, such as a bacterium, by extending its membrane around it. Pinocytosis is similar, but instead the cell engulfs droplets of extracellular fluid, taking in any dissolved substances within. Both phagocytosis and pinocytosis are forms of endocytosis.
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