executioner

n.

行刑者，死刑执行者；

复数：executioners

1. The executioner cut off his head at one blow.
   刽子手一刀就把他的头砍了。
2. An executioner is a person who carries out the death sentence.
   刽子手是执行死刑的人。

Interferon: cellular executioner or white knight?
Executioner caspase-3 and caspase-7 are functionally distinct proteases.
[Johann Valentin Deusser, executioner and surgeon]
The killer and the executioner: how apoptosis controls malignancy.
Executioner caspase-3, -6, and -7 perform distinct, non-redundant roles during the demolition phase of apoptosis.
Caspase-8/FLICE functions as an executioner caspase in anticancer drug-induced apoptosis.
The central executioner of apoptosis: multiple connections between protease activation and mitochondria in Fas/APO-1/CD95- and ceram...
Epidermal differentiation does not involve the pro-apoptotic executioner caspases, but is associated with caspase-14 induction and p...
Granzyme B mimics apical caspases. Description of a unified pathway for trans-activation of executioner caspase-3 and -7
Susin SA, Zamzami N, Castedo M, Daugas E, Wang HG, Geley S, Fassy F, Reed JC, Kroemer GThe central executioner of apoptosis: multipl...