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netosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ne-to-sis
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A death process for neutrophil cells, whereby the neutrophils expel their chromatin to form a neutrophil extracellular trap (“NET”), a net-like structure to capture invader chemicals and bodies, and cause clotting to block off a region of the body.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From NET (“neutrophil extracellular trap”) + -osis.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

NEToses (plural)

Questions

What does netosis mean?
A death process for neutrophil cells, whereby the neutrophils expel their chromatin to form a neutrophil extracellular trap (“NET”), a net-like structure to capture invader chemicals and bodies, and cause clotting to block off a region of the body.
Where does netosis come from?
From NET (“neutrophil extracellular trap”) + -osis.

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