APOPTOSIS
- The death of cells that occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism's growth or development
- the process of programmed cell death that may occur in multicellular organisms [n APOPTOSES] : APOPTOTIC [adj]
- the natural self-destruction of cells in a growing organism [n APOPTOSES]
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