Apoptosis (AY-pup-TOE-siss) at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Apoptosis (AY-pup-TOE-siss)? A type of cell death in which a series of molecular steps in a cell leads to its death. This is the bodys normal way of getting rid of unneeded or abnormal cells. The process of apoptosis may be blocked in cancer cells. Also called programmed cell death.

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