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n. Disintegration of cells into membrane-bound particles that are then eliminated by phagocytosis or by shedding.

n. 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

"She thought of how the word apoptosis meaning “cell death,” came from the Greek word for “falling leaves.”"

necrobiosis    cell death    programmed cell death   

apoptotically    apoptotic   

doses    grosses   

proliferation    angiogenesis    maturation    autophagy    activation    anergy    homeostasis    cytotoxicity    motility    necrosis