vacuole

A clear space in a tissue. Intracellularly, vacuoles may form as clear spaces around a foreign body serving as a temporary digestive organ for degradation of the foreign body.

Related

vacuolar ATP synthase (v ATPase) or endomembrane proton pump vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein (VPS) vacuolar sorting protein VPS10 domain-containing protein (VPS10)

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.