organelles

Cultural  

1. Parts of a cell that store food, discharge waste, produce energy, or perform other functions analogous to what organs do in large living things.

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Example Sentences

To do this, the lab studies how cells organize their internal structures, known as organelles, and how changes in those structures influence cellular performance, metabolism, and disease risk.

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

In addition, reduced ergosterol levels also trigger a second "self-destruct" pathway, which causes the cell to "self-eat" its own nuclei and other vital organelles -- a process known as macroautophagy.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2024

As a result, the proteins in the organelles can begin to fold into the wrong shapes.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

But cells don’t just fix their own organelles.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

A cell does this, and so do the organelles inside.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas