macroautophagy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of autophagy in which a membrane (the phagophore) forms around the material to be digested before it fuses with the lysosome

Word forms

macroautophagy

Etymology

From macro- + autophagy.

Related words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.