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necrobiosis

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nec=ro=bi=o=sis

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun necrobiosis has 1 sense

necrobiosis(n = noun.phenomenon) cell death - (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells); Array

is a kind of death

has particulars: apoptosis, caspase-mediated cell death, programmed cell death

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necrobiosis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. nekro`s dead + way of life, fr. life.].

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. Virchow. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

necrobiosis, n. decay in the tissues of the body, esp. swelling of the collagen bundles in the dermis.

Derivative

necrobiotic adj.

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