autophagia /au·to·pha·gia/ (-fa´jah)
autophagia
1. eating one's own flesh.
2. nutrition of the body by consumption of its own tissues.
3. autophagy (1).
au·to·pha·gia (ô t -f  j)n. 1. The biting of one's own flesh. 2. or au·toph·a·gy (ô-t  f-j ) The segregation and disposal of damaged organelles within a cell.3. or autophagy The maintenance of the nutrition of the whole body by metabolic consumption of some of the body tissues. au to·phagic (-f j k) adj. |
autophagia
[-fā′jə]
1 a mental disorder characterized by the biting or eating of one's own flesh, as may occur in Lesch-Nyan syndrome.
2 the automatic consumption of one's own tissues by fasting or dieting.
3 the metabolic action of catabolism.
autophagia
1. eating or biting of one's own flesh.
2. nutrition of the body by consumption of its own tissues.
3. autophagy.
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