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apoptosis

 
Noun apoptosis has 1 sense
  1. apoptosis, programmed cell death, caspase-mediated cell death - 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
    --1 is a kind of necrobiosis, cell death
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