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- noun The
eating of one's ownbody .
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Examples
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But when toxicity reaches the cell, autophagia may go crazy and kill off the whole cell as well as perfectly healthy cells necessary for the health of the lungs, and even other organs.
How Nanotechnology May Be Damaging Our Lungs | Impact Lab 2009
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There is, therefore, as Dujardin-Beaumetz asserts, autophagia in the obese, and all these varieties of treatment have but one end, viz.:
Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various
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Jiang’s group found that the PAMAMs cause lung damage by triggering a programmed cell death known as autophagia.
How Nanotechnology May Be Damaging Our Lungs | Impact Lab 2009
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