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anoikic

anoikic adjective: exhibiting anoikis, the form of apoptosis that occurs when a cell comes loose from its anchorage.

Adjective

anoikic (not comparable)

  1. Exhibiting anoikis, the form of apoptosis that occurs when a cell comes loose from its anchorage
    • Moreover, another process, autophagy — in which the cell digests some of its own components — is observed in anoikic cells.2009 September 2, Eyal Gottlieb, “Cancer: The fat and the furious”, in Nature, volume 461, number 7260, →DOI, pages 44–45

Origin of anoikic

From anoikis + -ic.

Questions about anoikic

What does anoikic mean?
Anoikic means exhibiting anoikis, the form of apoptosis that occurs when a cell comes loose from its anchorage.
What part of speech is anoikic?
Anoikic is an adjective.

Words near anoikic in the dictionary

  1. anogenic
  2. anogenital
  3. anogenitally
  4. anoia
  5. anoiconometon
  6. anoikic
  7. anoikis
  8. anoikism
  9. anoil
  10. anoiled
  11. anoiling

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