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apoptosis 
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(TTS Sound)Overview of noun apoptosis
The noun apoptosis has 1 sense
- apoptosis, programmed cell death, caspase-mediated cell death -- (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)