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autophagous /ö-toˈfə-gəs/ adjective- Self-devouring
- (of a bird) capable of feeding itself from the moment of hatching
ORIGIN: Gr autos self, and phagein to eat autophāˈgia or autophagy /-ə-ji/ noun - Sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body, eg during starvation (medicine)
- In a lysosome, the intracellular digestion of material of the cell (biochemistry)
- Eating or biting of part of one's own body (psychiatry)
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