necrobiosis
NounSynonyms:
cell death
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Noun (1)
- (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)Synonyms: cell deathType of deathKinds apoptosis, programmed cell death
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Nec′ro·bi·o′sis noun
Origin: NL., fr. Gr. νεκρός dead + … way of life, fr. … life.
Biol. & Med. The death of a part of an organism by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy; a normal dying out of cells in a tissue, in contrast to necrosis. Rudolf Virchow
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC