apoptosis

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 111506781)
    is a type of: cell death, necrobiosis - (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
    same as: caspase-mediated cell death, programmed cell death

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