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apopotosis

apopotosis is the misspelling of apoptosis.

Meaning of apoptosis

Noun

apoptosis (countable and uncountable, plural apoptoses)

  1. A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which leads to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.
    • The term apoptosis is proposed for a hitherto little recognized mechanism of controlled cell deletion, which appears to play a complementary but opposite role to mitosis in the regulation of animal cell populations.1972, J. F. R. Kerr, A. H. Wyllie, A. R. Currie, “Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wide-ranging Implications in Tissue Kinetics”, in British journal of cancer, volume 26, →DOI

Questions about apopotosis

What is apopotosis the misspelling of?
Apopotosis is the misspelling of apoptosis.

Words near apopotosis in the dictionary

  1. apoplexies
  2. apoplexing
  3. apoplexy
  4. apoposeidia
  5. apoposeidion
  6. apopotosis
  7. apoprotein
  8. apoproteins
  9. apoprotinin
  10. apoptin
  11. apoptogen

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