autophagous /ö-toˈfə-gəs/

1. Self-devouring
2. (of a bird) capable of feeding itself from the moment of hatching

autophāˈgia or autophagy /-ə-ji/ noun

1. Sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body, eg during starvation (medicine)
2. In a lysosome, the intracellular digestion of material of the cell (biochemistry)
3. Eating or biting of part of one's own body (psychiatry)

• metasequoias
• metasilicate
• metasilicates
• metasilicic
• metasomatic
• metasomatism
• metasomatisms
• metastabilities
• metastability
• metastable
• metastable state
• metastases
• metastasis
• metastasise
• metastasised
• metastasises
• metastasising
• metastasize
• metastasized
• metastasizes
• metastasizing
• metastatic
• metatarsal
• metatarsi
• metatarsus