autophagian.

1871 A. S. Donkin Skim-milk Treatm. of Diabetes & Bright's Dis. 63 The term autophagia, applied by Dr. Jaccoud to designate the emaciation produced by the disease is certainly objectionable.

1908 Trans. 6th Internat. Congr. on Tuberculosis 3 450 These are the hours of autophagia and the combustion of their very selves, the hour in which the organized albumin of the tissues is broken up and destroyed.

1940 Science 5 Apr. 343/1 In extreme cases of autophagia almost two inches of the tail was eaten and the forelimbs were completely removed up to the elbows.

1990 T. C. Boyle East is East i. 36 He..knew that sea water made you go stark raving mad and was a prelude to cannibalism and autophagia and worse.

2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 15174/1 Daily inspections included..assessment of the hind limbs for signs of autophagia or pressure.

1966 Exper. Neurol. 16 25 This is not inconceivable in view of the fact that a certain degree of autophagia seems to occur in normal cells.

1976 In Vitro 12 713/1 Cell degeneration, as evidenced by the presence of marked autophagia, was also present.

2000 J. M. Himmelhoch in J. C. Soares & S. Gershon Bipolar Disorders xiv. 293 These phenomena can injure neurons or may even cause them to subtly drop away from autophagia.