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Programmed cell death

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  1. 1
    The regulated death of a cell, mediated by an intracellular program. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival wordnet

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