autophagy

Meaning of autophagy

noun
  1. 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

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