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organelle

mitochondria

also: mitochondrion

a tiny rodlike structure, numbers of which are present in the CYTOPLASM of every CELL . Mitochondria contain ENZYMES and ATP involved in cell METABOLISM .

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug mitochondria