cell death

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsnecrobiosis

   Broaderdeath

   Narrowerapoptosis

   physiology

Questions about cell death

What does cell death mean?

cell death means "(physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)".

What is another word for cell death?

Close synonyms include necrobiosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cell death a common word?

cell death is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.