autophagy
Meaning of autophagy
noun
- consumption of the body’s own tissue as a metabolic process occurring in starvation and certain diseases.
the process of starvation-induced autophagy was recently the focus of extensive research
mid 19th century: from auto-1 + -phagy.
Information about autophagy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of autophagy is: autophagies.
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Hyphenation of autophagy
au-tophagy
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- autophagy is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of autophagy
- French: autophagie, autocannibalisme
- Spanish: autofagia
- Portuguese: autofagia
- Italian: autofagia
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