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- Dictionarypro·grammed cell death/ˈprōˌɡramd sel deTH/
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- 1. less technical term for apoptosis
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Programmed cell death is the death of a cell as a result of events inside of a cell, such as apoptosis or autophagy. PCD is carried out in a biological process, which usually confers advantage during an organism's lifecycle. For example, the differentiation of fingers and toes in a developing human embryo occurs because cells between the fingers apoptose; the result is that the digits are separate... Wikipedia