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What does the medical term autolysis mean?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Autolysis is more of a biological term rather than medical. It refers to a cell's on self-destruction through enzymatic digestion.

If a cell detects through various "checkpoints," if you will, that it is unfit to divide and produce more damaged versions of it will trigger autolysis.

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