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AUTOPHAGY

\ˌɔːtə͡ʊfˈe͡ɪd͡ʒi], \ˌɔːtə‍ʊfˈe‍ɪd‍ʒi], \ˌɔː_t_əʊ_f_ˈeɪ_dʒ_i]\

Definitions of AUTOPHAGY

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

The eating of one's own tissues in insanity.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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