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Definitions

Noun

1. 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. countable, uncountable

Etymology

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

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