caspase-mediated cell death

Noun caspase-mediated cell death has 1 sense

• caspase-mediated cell death(n = noun.phenomenon) apoptosis, programmed cell death - a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival;
is a kind of cell death, necrobiosis