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apoptosis

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noun
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
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Similar:

caspase-mediated cell death programmed cell death

type of:
cell death necrobiosis

Definition that contains apoptosis

caspase any of a group of proteases that mediate apoptosis