OBSOLETE. Any process that modulates the rate, frequency or extent of the breakdown of tissues; usually, if not always, accompanied by cell death.
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This term was made obsolete because it refers to a phenotype. When death of a cell or tissue is a result of a true biological process, this should be captured using 'programmed cell death' or one of its descendants.