"autophagy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: autophagies [plural]
Etymology: From auto- + -phagy. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|auto|phagy}} auto- + -phagy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} autophagy (countable and uncountable, plural autophagies)
  1. (cytology) The process of self-digestion by a cell through the action of enzymes originating within the same cell. Often a defensive and/or self-preservation measure. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cytology
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  2. (cytology) A type of programmed cell death accomplished through self-digestion. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cytology Coordinate_terms (programmed cell death): apoptosis
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  3. (rare) Self-consumption; the act of eating oneself. Tags: countable, rare, uncountable Synonyms (self-consumption): autocannibalism
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Derived forms: antiautophagy, lipoautophagy, macroautophagy, microautophagy, mitophagy Related terms: autophagal, autophagous Translations (the process of self-digestion): аўтафагі́я (aŭtafahíja) [feminine] (Belarusian), আত্মভক্ষণ (attobhokkhon) (Bengali), অটোফেজি (oṭōpheji) (Bengali), автофагия (avtofagija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), autofàgia [feminine] (Catalan), 自噬 (zìshì) (Chinese Mandarin), autofagie [feminine] (Czech), autofagie [feminine] (Dutch), autofagia (Finnish), autophagie [feminine] (French), autofaxia [feminine] (Galician), Autophagie [feminine] (German), αυτοφαγία (aftofagía) [feminine] (Greek), אוֹטוֹפַגְיָה (Hebrew), autofagi (Indonesian), autofagia [feminine] (Italian), オートファジー (ōtofajī) (Japanese), автофагия (avtofagiä) (Kazakh), 오토파지 (otopaji) (Korean), autofāgija [feminine] (Latvian), autofagija [feminine] (Lithuanian), автофагија (avtofagija) [feminine] (Macedonian), autofagi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), autofagi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), autofagia [feminine] (Polish), autofagocytoza [feminine] (Polish), autofagia [feminine] (Portuguese), аутофа́гия (autofágija) [feminine] (Russian), аутофа̀гија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), autofàgija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), avtofagija [feminine] (Slovene), autofagia [feminine] (Spanish), autofagi [common-gender] (Swedish), otofaji (Turkish), автофагі́я (avtofahíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), tự thực (Vietnamese), tự ăn mình (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'the process of self-digestion': 37 24 39

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      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
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      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "word": "অটোফেজি"
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      "word": "自噬"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "autofagie"
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      "_dis1": "37 24 39",
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      "_dis1": "37 24 39",
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        "feminine"
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        "feminine"
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "オートファジー"
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autofàgija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "avtofagija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "autofagia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "autofagi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "word": "otofaji"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "avtofahíja",
      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "автофагі́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "word": "tự thực"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the process of self-digestion",
      "word": "tự ăn mình"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "autophagy"
  ],
  "word": "autophagy"
}

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