Sinonim cell death

English Thesaurus

1. (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) (noun.phenomenon)

hypernym	:	death,
definition	:	the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism (noun.phenomenon)

hyponym	:	apoptosis, caspase-mediated cell death, programmed cell death,
definition	:	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 (noun.phenomenon)

domain category	:	physiology,
definition	:	the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms (noun.cognition)