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pyroptosis

pyroptosis noun: a form of programmed cell death associated with antimicrobial responses during inflammation.

Noun

pyroptosis (uncountable)

  1. A form of programmed cell death associated with antimicrobial responses during inflammation.

Origin of pyroptosis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire; fever”) + πτῶσῐς (ptôsĭs, “falling”), by analogy with apoptosis. Equivalent to pyro- + ptosis. Coined by Brad T. Cookson and Molly A. Brennan in a 2001 paper in Trends in Microbiology.

Words formed from pyroptosis

Questions about pyroptosis

What does pyroptosis mean?
Pyroptosis means a form of programmed cell death associated with antimicrobial responses during inflammation.
What part of speech is pyroptosis?
Pyroptosis is a noun.

Words near pyroptosis in the dictionary

  1. pyroplasticity
  2. pyroplastics
  3. pyropoikilocytosis
  4. pyroprobe
  5. pyroprobes
  6. pyroptosis
  7. pyroptosome
  8. pyroptosomes
  9. pyroptotic
  10. pyropus
  11. pyropuses

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