apoptosis

Letters that make apoptosis

s, a, o, p, t, i are letters that make 'apoptosis'

Words within apoptosis

PTO, os, OS, si, PO, opt, SI, sis, pop, Po, ptosis, Os, Pt, Si are words within 'apoptosis'

1 possible definitions for 'apoptosis'

Apoptosis as "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"

Under this definition, apoptosis is a noun and has the following properties:

Synonyms

programmed cell death, caspase-mediated cell death have the same meaning as 'apoptosis'

apoptosis as a type

'apoptosis' can be a type of necrobiosis, cell death.


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