Multiple Choice
A patient has a heart attack that leads to progressive cell injury that causes cell death with severe cell swelling and breakdown of organelles.What term would the nurse use to define this process?
A) Adaptation
B) Calcification
C) Apoptosis
D) Necrosis
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