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What does autolytic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (pathology) Being of like nature to autolysis.
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Bacteria have autolytic PG hydrolases that allow the cell to grow and divide.
Transparent film dressings maintain a moist environment, promoting granulation tissue formation and autolytic debridement of slough and eschar.
Like hydrogels, hydrocolloids can help a clean wound to granulate or epithelialize and encourage autolytic debridement in wounds with necrotic tissue.
A senescence-like autolytic programme is present in unicellular and filamentous green algae.
The preservatives, 'Merthiolate' and formalin, were used in an attempt to inhibit the autolytic action of the enzymes present.
Common methods of debridement are sharp or surgical, autolytic, and enzymatic.

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