eryptosis

English

Noun

eryptosis (uncountable)

1. (biology) phagocytosis of aging erythrocytes, triggered by changes in their plasma membranes, thus removing old and defective cells and continually purging the blood
   • 2015, Liangsuo Shu, Yingjie Li, Xiaokang, Liu Xin Qian, Suyi Huang, Shiping Jin, Baoxue Yang, “Aquaporin-1 is a Maxwell's Demon in the Body”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     This ability may protect the erythrocytes from the eryptosis elicited by osmotic shock when they move in the kidney, where a large gradient of urea is required for the urine concentrating mechanism.