Cell Death (Noun)
Meaning
(physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells).
Classification
Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
Examples
- The shedding of dead cells into the intestinal lumen is an important part of normal epithelial cell death and regeneration.
- Ablation therapy has the goal of triggering cancer cell death without affecting surrounding normal tissue.
- Under conditions of tissue homeostasis, rates of cell birth and cell death are equivalent and therefore tightly regulated.
- Loss of oxygen delivery due to blockage of a coronary artery will eventually result in cardiomyocyte cell death if blood flow is not reestablished.
- At this age the tissues most involved are bone, gut and adrenal cortex with lymph nodes in immune related cell death often producing illness in immune based or tumours disorders