anoikic en · ADJ
Etymology
From anoikis + -ic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Exhibiting anoikis, the form of apoptosis that occurs when a cell comes loose from its anchorage
Moreover, another process, autophagy — in which the cell digests some of its own components — is observed in anoikic cells.
2009 September 2, Eyal Gottlieb, “Cancer: The fat and the furious”, in Nature, volume 461, number 7260, →DOI, pages 44–45: