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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Digestion by the gastric juice of portions of the raucous membrane of the stomach which have lost their vitality. See
autolysis .
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- noun biology The
digestion oftissue byenzymes produced by the organism itself.
Etymologies
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auto- + digestion.
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