autophagy

Noun

 * 1)  The process of self-digestion by a cell through the action of enzymes originating within the same cell. Often a defensive and/or self-preservation measure.
 * 2)  A type of programmed cell death accomplished through self-digestion.
 * 3)  Self-consumption; the act of eating oneself.

Related terms

 * autophagal

Translations

 * Belarusian: аўтафагі́я
 * Bengali: আত্মভক্ষণ, অটোফেজি
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: autofàgia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 自噬
 * Czech: autofagie
 * Dutch: autofagie
 * Finnish: autofagia
 * French:
 * Galician: autofaxia
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אוֹטוֹפַגְיָה
 * Indonesian: autofagi
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: オートファジー
 * Kazakh: автофагия
 * Korean: 오토파지
 * Latvian: autofāgija
 * Lithuanian: autofagija
 * Macedonian: автофагија
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: autofagi
 * Nynorsk: autofagi
 * Polish:, autofagocytoza
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: аутофа̀гија
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: avtofagija
 * Spanish: autofagia
 * Swedish: autofagi
 * Turkish: otofaji
 * Ukrainian: автофагі́я
 * Vietnamese: tự thực, tự ăn mình