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Definition of Autophagy
1. n. The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.
Definition of Autophagy
1. Noun. (biology) 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. ¹
2. Noun. (biology) A type of programmed cell death accomplished through self-digestion ¹
3. Noun. (rare) Self-consumption; the act of eating oneself. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Autophagy
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Medical Definition of Autophagy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Autophagy
Literary usage of Autophagy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1860)
"Artificial autophagy allows of excessive emaciation, te allows of its being
carried to six-tenths in fat subjects, five-tenths in medium subjects, ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"autophagy explains the sexual act as a process by which sexual cells mutually
... autophagy conceives the sexual cell (gamete) as one that lacks the energy ..."
3. Biochemical Catalysts in Life and Industry: Proteolytic Enzymes by Jean Effront (1917)
"autophagy of Yeast: — Bechamp, Schutzenberger, Salkowski, and many others have
found that tjy auto-digestion of yeast the nitrogenous material of the ..."
4. Secrets of Animal Life by John Arthur Thomson (1919)
"If the breakage fails, the prawn may be seen to tug at the limb with its jaws,
thus harking back towards autophagy. (3) If the leg of a lobster or crayfish ..."
5. On Diabetes Mellitus and Glycosuria by Emil Kleen (1900)
"I give, therefore, no separate description of mild and severe diabetes, but only
point out the toxic and cachectic nature, and the autophagy of the latter, ..."
6. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1905)
"Alcohol is another substance that I believe to Ie beneficial by preventing
the "autophagy " of the tissues. 1 permit my patients the use of tobacco for ..."
7. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"Sexuality was thus primarily autophagy. Parthenogenesis is to be expected whenever
gametes find an environment sufficiently favorable for the vegetative ..."
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