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Apostasy vs Apoptosis - What's the difference?

apostasy | apoptosis |

As nouns the difference between apostasy and apoptosis

is that apostasy is the renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs while apoptosis is a process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which lead to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.

apostasy

English

Noun

(apostasies)
  • The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
  • * 1871 , James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth , page 394
    • The King of Navarre suddenly abandoned his party and went over to the Catholics. The explanation of his apostasy was as simple as it was base: Navarre had no confidence in the success of his cause, and he cared little in his heart for anything but women and vanity.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:What had he said, what had he done, after all, to give them the right to fasten on him the charge of apostasy ? He had always been a free critic of everything, and it was natural that, on certain occasions, in the little parlour in Lisson Grove, he should have spoken in accordance with that freedom; but it was only with the Princess that he had permitted himself really to rail at the democracy and given the full measure of his scepticism.
  • Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.

    • Synonyms

    * (renunciation of religion or faith) backsliding, conversion, deconversion * (renunciation of a set of beliefs) defection, disaffection, estrangement

    Related terms

    * apostate * apostatise

    See also

    * deconvert * thoughtcrime

    External links

    * (wikipedia "apostasy")

    apoptosis

    English

    Noun

  • (biology, cytology) A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which lead to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.
  • * 1972 , John F Kerr et al., (title):
    • Apoptosis : a basic biological phenomenon with wide-ranging implications in tissue kinetics.
  • *1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 238:
  • *:Indeed, so important is apoptosis' that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces ' apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.
  • * 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 74:
    • Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.

    Hypernyms

    * programmed cell death

    Coordinate terms

    * autophagy

    Derived terms

    * apoptotic * apoptotically English words suffixed with -osis ----