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William Sircus
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Senior Consultant Physician, Gastrointestinal Unit; former Reader in Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Coeditor of Scientific Foundations of Gastroenterology.

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Digestive vacuole
Invertebrate digestive system, any of the systems used by invertebrates for the process of digestion. Included are vacuolar and channel-network systems, as well as more specialized saccular and tubular systems. Unicellular organisms that ingest food particles via vacuoles rely on intracellular…
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