"NETosis" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: NEToses [plural], netosis [alternative]
Etymology: From NET (“neutrophil extracellular trap”) + -osis. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|NET|osis|t1=neutrophil extracellular trap}} NET (“neutrophil extracellular trap”) + -osis Head templates: {{en-noun|~|NEToses}} NETosis (countable and uncountable, plural NEToses)
  1. (biology) A death process for neutrophil cells, whereby the neutrophils expel their chromatin to form a neutrophil extracellular trap (“NET”), a net-like structure to capture invader chemicals and bodies, and cause clotting to block off a region of the body. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology

Inflected forms

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