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autodigestion
autodigestion n. 
/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)dᵻˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɔdoʊdəˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɑdoʊˌdaɪˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɑdoʊdəˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/ [probably after French autodigestion (1860 or earlier)] Biology and Medicine autolysis of animal or plant tissue; cellular autophagy; (also) degradation of a macromolecule by endogenous cellular enzymes.
Brit. /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)dʌɪˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/
, /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)dʌɪˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n//ˌɔːtə(ʊ)dᵻˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/U.S. /ˌɔdoʊˌdaɪˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/
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the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > transfer of nutritive materials or digestion
circulation1656
translocation1868
autodigestion1879
the world > life > biology > biological processes > lysis > [noun]
autodigestion1879
plasmolysis1883
cytolysis1896
phagolysis1898
autolysis1900
heterolysis1902
lysis1902
trypanolysis1905
chromatolysis1908
oncolysis1928
plasmolysability1950
induction1951
lysogenization1953
lysogenizing1961
the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > self-destruction of tissue
autodigestion1879
1879 London Med. Rec. 15 Mar. 121 They are not, therefore, previously formed in the gland [sc. the pancreas], but are due to auto-digestion.
1913 Ann. Bot. 27 172 The well-known phenomenon of ‘auto-digestion’ shown by the fruit bodies of most species of Coprinus.
1970 E. J. Ambrose & D. M. Easty Cell Biol. v. 170 Cell injury involves another aspect of lysosomal function, known as autodigestion or autophagy, in which some of the contents of the cell itself are engulfed by the lysosome and broken down.
2003 R. J. Epstein Human Molecular Biol. v. 536 Bacteria prevent their own genomes from autodigestion via DNA methylation.
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