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apoptosis
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (apópt?sis, “a falling off”), from ??? (apó, “away from”) + ?????? (ptôsis, “falling”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ap?p?t??s?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æ.p??to?.s?s/, /?æp?p?to?s?s/
- Rhymes: -??s?s
Noun
apoptosis (countable and uncountable, plural apoptoses)
- (biology, cytology) A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which leads to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury. [from 20th c.]
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 238:
- Indeed, so important is apoptosis that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.
- 2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 74:
- Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 238:
Hypernyms
- programmed cell death
Coordinate terms
- autophagy
Derived terms
- apoptotic
- apoptotically
- necroapoptosis
- neuroapoptosis
Translations
Spanish
Noun
apoptosis f (plural apoptosis)
- (cytology) apoptosis
Further reading
- “apoptosis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
apoptosis From the web:
- what apoptosis is and why it is important
- what apoptosis mean
- what apoptosis is like
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- apoptosis what it does
- what is apoptosis quizlet
clusterin
English
Etymology
cluster +? -in
Noun
clusterin (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) A heterodimeric glycoprotein associated with apoptosis.
Anagrams
- linctures
clusterin From the web:
- what clustering means
- what clustering algorithm to use
- what clustering
- what clustering in data mining
- what clustering method to use
- what's clustering in math
- what clustering is used for
- what clustering data
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