(pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue
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Myonecrosis
localized death of muscle cell fibers
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a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Pathology.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Pathology.the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Pathology.the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Pathology.the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Pathology.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Pathology.the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Pathology.(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a da…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri dish"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism c…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology.(pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a da…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
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a protein complex in muscle fibers; composed of myosin and actin; shortens when stimulated and causes muscle contractions
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and sod…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.Having fibers; made up of fibers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: localized, death, muscle, cell, fibers.
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