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?

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Necrosis is the sum of cellular changes after local cell death.
Cellular adaptation is a reversible,structural,or functional response to both normal or physiologic conditions and adverse or pathologic conditions.
Calcification is an accumulation of calcium salts.
Apoptosis is an active process of cellular self-destruction.

A Patient Has a Heart Attack That Leads to Progressive