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autophagia

autophagia noun: the eating of one's own body.

Noun

autophagia (uncountable)

  1. The eating of one's own body.
    Synonyms:
    autophagy

autophagia meaning in Tamil and Kannada

autophagia in Tamil

தன்னுடல் இறைச்சி யுண்ணல்

autophagia in Kannada

ತಂತಾತಿನಿಕೆ

Synonyms of autophagia

Origin of autophagia

From auto- + -phagia.

Questions about autophagia

What does autophagia mean?
Autophagia means the eating of one's own body.
What is autophagia in Tamil?
Autophagia in Tamil is தன்னுடல் இறைச்சி யுண்ணல். See Autophagia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is autophagia?
Autophagia is a noun.

Words near autophagia in the dictionary

  1. autophagal
  2. autophagasome
  3. autophage
  4. autophages
  5. autophagi
  6. autophagia
  7. autophagic
  8. autophagical
  9. autophagically
  10. autophagies
  11. autophagin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autophagia (page history and authors); autophagia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); autophagia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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