An endocytosis process that results in the uptake of liquid material by cells from their external environment by the 'ruffling' of the cell membrane to form heterogeneously sized intracellular vesicles called macropinosomes, which can be up to 5 micrometers in size. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14732047 ]

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Term information

creation date

2011-08-11T10:26:42Z

has alternative id

GO:1902538

has broad synonym

clathrin-independent pinocytosis

has obo namespace

biological_process

has related synonym

single-organism macropinocytosis

id

GO:0044351