The term apoptosis is proposed for a hitherto little recognized mechanism of controlled cell deletion, which appears to play a complementary but opposite role to mitosis in the regulation of animal cell populations.
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Apoptosis
//ˌæ.pəˈtoʊ.sɪs//
Synonyms for "apoptosis" (4 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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53 translations across 48 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- apoptose noun (death of cells)
Arabic
1 entries- اسْتِماتَة noun (death of cells)
Armenian
1 entries- ապոպտոզ noun (death of cells)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- apoptoz noun (death of cells)
Basque
1 entries- apoptosi noun (death of cells)
Belarusian
1 entries- апаптоз noun (death of cells)
Bengali
1 entries- অ্যাপোপটোসিস noun (death of cells)
Bulgarian
1 entries- апоптоза noun (death of cells)
Catalan
1 entries- apoptosi noun (death of cells)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 细胞凋亡 noun (death of cells)
Czech
1 entries- apoptóza noun (death of cells)
Danish
1 entries- apoptose noun (death of cells)
Dutch
1 entries- apoptose noun (death of cells)
Estonian
1 entries- apoptoos noun (death of cells)
Finnish
2 entries- apoptoosi noun (death of cells)
- ohjelmoitu solukuolema noun (death of cells)
French
1 entries- apoptose noun (death of cells)
Galician
1 entries- apoptose noun (death of cells)
Georgian
1 entries- აპოპტოზი noun (death of cells)
German
1 entries- Apoptose noun (death of cells)
Greek
1 entries- απόπτωση noun (death of cells)
Hebrew
1 entries- אַפּוֹפְּטוֹזָה noun (death of cells)
Hindi
1 entries- एपोप्टोसिस noun (death of cells)
Hungarian
1 entries- apoptózis noun (death of cells)
Ido
1 entries- apoptozo noun (death of cells)
Irish
1 entries- apaptóis noun (death of cells)
Italian
1 entries- apoptosi noun (death of cells)
Japanese
1 entries- アポトーシス noun (death of cells)
Kannada
1 entries- ಅಪೊಪ್ಟೋಸಿಸ್ noun (death of cells)
Korean
2 entries- 세포자살 noun (death of cells)
- 아포토시스 noun (death of cells)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- апопеоз noun (death of cells)
Lithuanian
1 entries- apoptozė noun (death of cells)
Macedonian
1 entries- апоптоза noun (death of cells)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- apoptose noun (death of cells)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- apoptose noun (death of cells)
Occitan
1 entries- apoptòsi noun (death of cells)
Polish
1 entries- apoptoza noun (death of cells)
Portuguese
1 entries- apoptose noun (death of cells)
Romanian
1 entries- apoptoză noun (death of cells)
Russian
1 entries- апопто́з noun (death of cells)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- apoptóza noun (death of cells)
- апопто́за noun (death of cells)
Slovak
1 entries- apoptóza noun (death of cells)
Slovene
1 entries- apoptoza noun (death of cells)
Spanish
1 entries- apoptosis noun (death of cells)
Swedish
1 entries- apoptos noun (death of cells)
Thai
1 entries- อะพอพโทซิส noun (death of cells)
Turkish
2 entries- apoptoz noun (death of cells)
- apoptozis noun (death of cells)
Ukrainian
1 entries- апопто́з noun (death of cells)
Uzbek
2 entries- apoptoz noun (death of cells)
- апоптоз noun (death of cells)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Indeed, so important is apoptosis that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.
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Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.
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