pyroptosisWiktionary 原文英美构词拆解pyropyro-前缀ptosisptosis词干pyro-Fire, heat. · Fever.词源链古希腊语Ancient Greek约前 1500–前 300 年↓ 书面借入英语Englishpyroptosis词源说明Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire; fever”) + πτῶσῐς (ptôsĭs, “falling”), by analogy with apoptosis. Equivalent to pyro- + ptosis. Coined by Brad T. Cookson and Molly A. Brennan in a 2001 paper in Trends in Microbiology.释义名词noun1(biology) A form of programmed cell death associated with antimicrobial responses during inflammation.同族词派生词 2pyroptosome·pyroptotic