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NECROBIOSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
Synonyms:
cell death; necrobiosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("necrobiosis" is a kind of...):
death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)
Domain category:
physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "necrobiosis"):
apoptosis; caspase-mediated cell death; programmed 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)
