Usually means: Self-digestion by an organism's enzymes.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. autolytic: Merriam-Webster
  2. autolytic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autolytic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. autolytic: Vocabulary.com
  5. autolytic: Wordnik
  6. autolytic: Wiktionary
  7. autolytic: Dictionary.com
  8. Autolytic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. autolytic: Rhymezone
  10. autolytic: FreeDictionary.org
  11. autolytic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. autolytic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. autolytic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. autolytic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. autolytic: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (pathology) Relating to autolysis

Similar:
autolysosomal, autocytolytic, autotomic, apolytic, autophagolysosomal, autolatric, autoanalytic, autocidal, autoanalytical, autodigestive, more...

Opposite:
heterolytic, heterolysis

Phrases:
autolytic enzyme, more...

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Similar:
autolysosomal, autocytolytic, autotomic, apolytic, autophagolysosomal, autolatric, autoanalytic, autocidal, autoanalytical, autodigestive, more...

Opposite:
heterolytic, heterolysis

Phrases:
autolytic enzyme, more...



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