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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physiology, that property of living substance which enables it to make adjoining cells or structures develop adaptively or in harmony with itself.
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- noun medicine The
physiological process by whichcells physicallydegrade due toage
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- noun normal aging of cells
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