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apoptosis vs necrobiosis

necrobiosis vs apoptosis

apoptosis and necrobiosis both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
apoptosis Yes No No No
necrobiosis Yes No No No
As nouns, necrobiosis is a hypernym of apoptosis; that is, necrobiosis is a word with a broader meaning than apoptosis:
  • apoptosis: 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
  • necrobiosis: (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
Other hypernyms of apoptosis include cell death.
apoptosis (noun) necrobiosis (noun)
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 (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
Difference between apoptosis and necrobiosis

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