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NETosis

NETosis noun: a death process for neutrophil cells, whereby the neutrophils expel their chromatin to form a neutrophil extracellular trap (“NET”), a net-like structure to capture invader chemicals and bodies, and cause clotting to block off a region of the body.

Noun

NETosis (countable and uncountable, plural NEToses)

  1. A death process for neutrophil cells, whereby the neutrophils expel their chromatin to form a neutrophil extracellular trap (“NET”), a net-like structure to capture invader chemicals and bodies, and cause clotting to block off a region of the body.

Forms of NETosis

pluralNEToses
alternative formnetosis

Origin of NETosis

From NET (“neutrophil extracellular trap”) + -osis.

Questions about NETosis

What does NETosis mean?
NETosis means a death process for neutrophil cells, whereby the neutrophils expel their chromatin to form a neutrophil extracellular trap (“NET”), a net-like structure to capture invader chemicals and bodies, and cause clotting to block off a region of the body.
What part of speech is NETosis?
NETosis is a noun.
What is the plural of NETosis?
The plural of NETosis is NEToses.

Words near NETosis in the dictionary

  1. netorares
  2. netoraring
  3. netorase
  4. netori
  5. NEToses
  6. NETosis
  7. netphone
  8. netphones
  9. netpicker
  10. netpickers
  11. netpicking

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