
300px|thumb | Phagocytosis of a bacterium, showing the formation of phagosome and phagolysosome
300px|thumb | Phagocytosis of a bacterium, showing the formation of phagosome and phagolysosome
In cell biology, a phagosome is a vesicle formed around a particle engulfed by a phagocyte via phagocytosis. Professional phagocytes include macrophages, neutrophils, and dendritic cells (DCs).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).