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vacuolization

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Noun1.vacuolization - the state of having become filled with vacuolesvacuolization - the state of having become filled with vacuoles
condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"


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In addition, selenium deficiency can cause a painful myopathy with thinned myofibrils, vacuolization without fibrosis, and mitochondrial abnormalities.
Oysters were screened for the following pathological changes: (1) inflammatory responses (acute or chronic); (2) degenerations (ceroidosis, vacuolization, inclusions, and atrophy); (3) cell and tissue death (necrosis, pyknosis, apoptosis, and lysis); (4) growth derangements (hyperplasia, hypertrophy, metaplasia, xenoma); (5) hemodynamic and fluid derangements (edema, hemorrhage, ulcers); and (6) neoplasia (benign or malignant) according to Sunila (2000).
 
 
 
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