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Definition: Cell Death |
Cell DeathNoun1. (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The termination of the cell's ability to carry out vital functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, responsiveness, and adaptability. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Cell DeathSynonym: necrobiosis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cell Death |
| English words defined with "cell death": apoptosis ♦ caspase-mediated cell death ♦ programmed cell death. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cell death": 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ♦ Cell Aging, Cell Physiology, Clonal Deletion ♦ Etoposide, exisulind ♦ Neuronal atrophy ♦ Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 ♦ Teniposide. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many forms of damage can trigger cell death. (references) | |
This is believed to be the first study to link caspase-6 to neuronal cell death. (references) | ||
In normal tissues, the rates of new cell growth and old cell death are kept in balance. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "cell death": programmed cell death. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
programmed cell death | 7 |
apoptosis cell death programmed | 6 |
cell death | 6 |
cell death differentiation | 5 |
cell death phone | 3 |
cell death row | 2 |
apoptose cell death programmed | 2 |
brain cell death | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-l-l-t" | |
-1 letter: chelated. | |
-2 letters: cadelle, cheated, chelate, cleated, hellcat, latched, leached, letched. | |
-3 letters: called, callet, cellae, celled, chalet, chelae, daleth, delate, detach, elated, etched, halted, healed, heated, helled, lathed, leched, lethal, talced, teched, thecae, thecal. | |
-4 letters: ached, acted, allee, cadet, cella, cheat, chela, clade, cleat, dealt, death, decal, delta, eched, eclat, elate, elect, haled, hated, laced. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-l-l-t" | |
+1 letter: hatchelled. | |
+4 letters: candlelighted, candlelighter, coldheartedly. | |
+5 letters: candlelighters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 65 6C 6C 44 65 61 74 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000100 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C e l l   D e a t h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0065 006C 006C 0044 0065 0061 0074 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3771787823871678674 |
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