Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Disintegration of cells into membrane-bound particles that are then eliminated by phagocytosis or by shedding.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἀπόπτωσις (apoptōsis, "a falling off"), from ἀπό (apo, "away from") + πτῶσις (ptōsis, "falling"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She thought of how the word apoptosis meaning “cell death,” came from the Greek word for “falling leaves.””
“The process of cells dying is a highly controlled one that is called apoptosis, which is a Greek word that means “petals dropping off a plant.””
Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book
“So, when a telomere gets short, that's when either senescence or apoptosis is triggered.”
“In neurons this is called apoptosis; in humans it is called depression, grief, and suicide.”
“When they exposed cancer cells to these phytonutrients, the cells self-destructed technically, such self-destruction is called apoptosis.”
“Older men's sperm is also less likely to undergo a self-destruct mechanism called apoptosis, which is meant to get rid of damaged cells.”
“This component blocked the growth of tumor cells, as well as of new blood vessels, and killed cancer cells directly through a process known as apoptosis.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Richard Palmquist: Science Rediscovers the Forgotten Herb Andrographis
“Of critical importance is the fact that increased IGF-1 levels block natural defense mechanisms, known as apoptosis, against early submicroscopic cancers.”
Samuel S. Epstein: An FDA Ban On Genetically-Engineered Milk Is 20 Years Overdue
“Of generally unrecognized and critical importance is the fact that increased IGF-1 levels also block a natural defense mechanisms, known as apoptosis or programmed self-destruction.”
The Huffington Post: Samuel S. Epstein: The Dangers of Genetically Engineered Milk
“In Forever Young you will learn new, effective, and safe strategies to protect the mitochondria, the mitochondrial DNA, and other parts of the cell from this programmed cell death, known as apoptosis, starting with the miraculous therapeutic powers of niacinamide vitamin B3, which you will read about on page 107.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apoptosis’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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BIOL - the brain
ruptured blood ve..., clot, pressure on a blo..., tumor, brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t..., catecholamine, arousal, regulation of sleep and 564 more...
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opt
opt, optic, Coptic, option, adoption, co-opt, optimal, optical, optician, optometrist, apoptosis, hemoptysis and 21 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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Worse Than They Sound
fistula, cryptosporidium, debride, donnybrook, decerebrate, pillory, flagellate, disembogue, minatory, micturate, coprolite, nosocomial and 160 more...
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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pixistix's Words
cumquat, circumlocution, panoply, propinquity, contumely, quietus, fardel, tmesis, tipsy, giddy, trudge, vortex and 211 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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littlemasumi's list
thaumatolatry, liminality, sophistry, myopia, prosopopeia, palimpsest, imbroglio, ephemeral, sentient, prescient, vicissitude, zeitgeist and 103 more...
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itsmemandy's Words
crabwise, incognito, congeal, coagulate, incinerate, immolate, appease, acquiesce, redux, secrecy, atria, shakuhachi and 114 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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favorite words
aporia, hypotyposis, prosopopeia, obsablepsia, torus, aptronym, syzygy, sesquipedalian, callipygian, palimpsest, pulchritude, inchoate and 12 more...
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bioinformatics and bioengineering words
What happens when you put a (former) English major at a bioinformatics and bioengineering summer institute? A list of wacky bio-words, of course!
proteomics, genomics, contig, dinucleotide, spectrometry, fovea, metagenomics, peptide, phylogenetics, protozoan, heterocyst, intracellular and 73 more...
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Megnum's Words
buttercup, encephalitis, titular, sanguine, ubiquitous, ethereal, pusillanimous, apoptosis, xenophobe, circumvent, philistine, ostensibly and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for apoptosis.
hernesheir The postapoptotic part comes afterwards. Jan 10, 2012