apoptosis
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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 (noun.phenomenon)
| hypernym | : | cell death, necrobiosis, |
| definition | : | (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) (noun.phenomenon) |
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