Recognizing the importance of its kinetic mechanism in controlled cell deletion, either occurring spontaneously or in response to a stimulus, they offered the term apoptosis (from Greek, meaning "to fall away from", as in leaves from a tree; thus, the falling away of cells from a tissue).
Airman Walker could do nothing but watch it fall away from the plane; he assumed it was lost forever, not to mention destroyed by the fall.
Then, the years fall away from Paul.
"They just fall away from the world".
A wholeness torn asunder, then, a fall away from origins.
But early on Christmas Morning, his numbers fall away from normal ranges.
They are tender, but not so that they fall away from the bone.
As the long ends of the bars begin to fall away from each other, she stops.
Knausgaard's angels are wounded, tragic and, finally, debased, gradually degenerating as they fall away from God.
Slit sleeves appeared to fall away from jacket shoulders; hobnail boots sprouted gnarls, and stilettos had carved iris heels.
With his mother gone, civilization began to fall away from him like feathers from a molting hen.
