Oncosis

noun

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

Etymology

From onco- + -osis.

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cell death

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