different between apoptosis vs gangrene

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)

1. (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.

Hypernyms

• programmed cell death

Coordinate terms

• autophagy

Derived terms

• apoptotic
• apoptotically
• necroapoptosis
• neuroapoptosis

Translations

Spanish

Noun

apoptosis f (plural apoptosis)

1. (cytology) apoptosis

Further reading

• “apoptosis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From French gangrène, from Latin gangraena, from Ancient Greek ????????? (gángraina, “gangrene”), from ???? (grá?, “I gnaw”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??a????i?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??æ????in/
• Hyphenation: gan?grene

Noun

gangrene (countable and uncountable, plural gangrenes)

1. The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

   If gangrene sets in, we may have to amputate the foot.

2. (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.
   • 1960, Cora Vreede-de Stuers, The Indonesian woman: struggles and achievements

     Women should earn equal wages with men for equal work done. Child marriages and polygamy are a gangrene on society.

Derived terms

• gas gangrene

Translations

Verb

gangrene (third-person singular simple present gangrenes, present participle gangrening, simple past and past participle gangrened)

1. (transitive) To produce gangrene in.
2. (intransitive) To be affected with gangrene.
3. (transitive) To corrupt; To cause to become degenerate.

Anagrams

• gangreen

Dutch

Noun

gangrene n (uncountable)

1. (Belgium) Alternative form of gangreen.

Italian

Noun

gangrene f

1. plural of gangrena

Spanish

Verb

gangrene

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of gangrenar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of gangrenar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of gangrenar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of gangrenar.