athrocytosis
noun
ath·ro·cy·to·sis
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plural athrocytoses\ -ˌsēz
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Medical Definition of athrocytosis
: the capacity of some cells (as of the proximal convoluted tubule of the kidney) to pick up foreign material and store it in granular form in the cytoplasm