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self-digestion
This term describes a biological mechanism of internal breakdown, typically associated with the action of lysosomes or autophagic processes. It carries a clinical and technical tone, used almost exclusively in cellular biology and pathology to describe the recycling of organelles or the programmed destruction of a cell.
Because it refers to a biological process, the term is treated as an uncountable mass noun. It describes a state or a mechanism rather than a discrete object, meaning it does not take a plural form in standard scientific discourse and cannot be counted with numbers.
Meanings
Examples
The pancreas can suffer from self-digestion if enzymes are activated prematurely.
Is this cellular damage a result of self-digestion or an external toxin?
Self-digestion occurs when lysosomes rupture and release their enzymes into the cytoplasm.
The tissue showed clear signs of self-digestion under the microscope.
I wonder if the cell is undergoing self-digestion to survive the nutrient shortage.
Acute pancreatitis is essentially a process of rapid self-digestion of the organ.
Acute pancreatitis is essentially a process of rapid self-digestion of the organ.
The biological mechanism of self-digestion allows the organism to recycle old proteins.
We must determine if the necrosis was caused by self-digestion.