anoikic

English

Etymology

From anoikis +‎ -ic.

Adjective

anoikic (not comparable)

1. (cytology) Exhibiting anoikis, the form of apoptosis that occurs when a cell comes loose from its anchorage
   • 2009 September 2, Eyal Gottlieb, “Cancer: The fat and the furious”, in Nature, volume 461, number 7260, →DOI, pages 44–45:

     Moreover, another process, autophagy — in which the cell digests some of its own components — is observed in anoikic cells.