different between apoptotic vs apoptosis

English

Adjective

apoptotic (comparative more apoptotic, superlative most apoptotic)

1. (biochemistry) Of or pertaining to apoptosis

Derived terms

• apoptotic body
• apoptotically

Translations

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.