Necrobiosis: alternatives and connections

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Necrobiosis

The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy.

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Death 76% connected

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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Cell death noun · 85% connection

(physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)