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oncosis

oncosis noun: ischemic cell death: a process characterized by mitochondrial swelling, cytoplasm vacuolization, and swelling of the nucleus and cytoplasm.

Noun

oncosis (uncountable)

  1. ischemic cell death: a process characterized by mitochondrial swelling, cytoplasm vacuolization, and swelling of the nucleus and cytoplasm

Origin of oncosis

From onco- + -osis.

Words formed from oncosis

Questions about oncosis

What does oncosis mean?
Oncosis means ischemic cell death: a process characterized by mitochondrial swelling, cytoplasm vacuolization, and swelling of the nucleus and cytoplasm.
What part of speech is oncosis?
Oncosis is a noun.

Words near oncosis in the dictionary

  1. oncornaviral
  2. oncornavirus
  3. oncornaviruses
  4. oncosimeter
  5. oncosimeters
  6. oncosis
  7. oncosome
  8. oncosomes
  9. oncospheral
  10. oncosphere
  11. oncospheres

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