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CASPASE-MEDIATED CELL DEATH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
apoptosis; caspase-mediated cell death; programmed cell death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("caspase-mediated cell death" is a kind of...):
cell death; necrobiosis ((physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells))
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