Necrobiosis

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(Biol. & Med.) 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.

Noun

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necrobiosis - (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) Synonyms: cell death

apoptosis, caspase-mediated cell death, cell death, death, physiology, programmed cell death