Term: necrobiosis: (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: rut: a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: self: your consciousness of your own identity
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: gunflint: the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: leafnose bat: bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: aspidelaps: African coral snakes
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: horseweed: common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: pomatomus: type genus of the Pomatomidae
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: quibble: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: curtain: any barrier to communication or vision
Broader: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | Unrelated: sandwort: loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe