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APOPTOSIS

• APOPTOSIS (noun)
The noun APOPTOSIS has 1 sense:

1. a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival

Familiarity information: APOPTOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

• APOPTOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

apoptosis; caspase-mediated cell death; programmed cell death

Hypernyms ("apoptosis" is a kind of...):

cell death; necrobiosis ((physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells))

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