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NETosis

The English word “NETosis” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. 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.

Etymology

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

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