Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Death of cells or tissues through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of the body.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, the death of a circumscribed piece of tissue. It may be produced by stoppage of the blond-supply, as in embolism, by mechanical violence, by chemical agency, or by excessive heat or cold. It may involve large masses of tissue, or small clusters of cells, or scattered individual cells. The necrosed tissue may be absorbed and replaced by normal tissue or by cicatricial tissue. It may form a caseous mass, or the cavity may fill with lymph, forming a cyst.
- n. In botany, a disease of plants, chiefly found upon the leaves and soft parenchymatous parts. It consists of small black spots, below which the substance of the plant decays. Also called
spatting . - n. A disease of the grape, attributed to Bacillus vitivorus.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) The pathologic death of part of a tissue due to irreversible damage. Contrast to
necrobiosis , which is a normal death of cells in a tissue. Formerly, applied primarily to death of bone tissue. - n. (Bot.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek νέκρωσις. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin necrōsis, a causing to die, killing, from Greek nekrōsis, death, from nekroun, to make dead, from nekros, corpse; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dr. Detlef Weigel and colleagues found that one mechanism, hybrid necrosis, is associated with a plant defense gene.”
“As a result, he developed "skin necrosis and abscess formation which required multiple surgical procedures to repair ...." and subsequently sued seeking recovery for those injuries and the replacement cost of his wheelchair.”
“The record further establishes that the skin necrosis and abscess, which did not appear until approximately two months after the accident, were not related to any injury plaintiff sustained in the accident, but rather were caused by an ill-fitting replacement wheelchair.”
“But there is a patient here who has significant what's called necrosis, where parts of her leg had died as a result of crush injury.”
“GUPTA: There is a patient here who had significant, what's called necrosis, where parts of her leg had died as a result of crush injury.”
“The spreading infection resulted in necrosis, which is the deadening of tissues caused by septicemia with its resulting lack of blood flow to organs and tissues.”
Matthew Stein: When a Superbug Strikes Close to Home, How Can You Deal With it?
“Patients also had complications including hematoma, or internal bleeding, following breast-enlargement surgery, infection, the development of dead tissue known as necrosis, cardiac arrests, breathing problems, pulmonary embolism and other blood clots, and allergic reactions.”
“GUPTA: She formed what is called necrosis, the skin under one of her breasts was dying.”
“Some tissue death from surgical manipulation, called necrosis, is inevitable after any procedure, though your risks increase dramatically if you're a smoker.”
“This, after doctors determined earlier this morning that there was extensive damage to his digestive tract, a condition known as necrosis, which causes intestinal tissue to die.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘necrosis’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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BIOL - the brain
ruptured blood ve..., clot, pressure on a blo..., tumor, brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t..., catecholamine, arousal, regulation of sleep and 564 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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sick
"Sick" is probably not the right word, but this is where I put diseases, problems and abnormalities until I find a better way to sort them.
atavism, pareidolia, apophenia, echolalia, glossolalia, alogia, dysthymia, euthymia, synesthesia, Stendhal syndrome, cryptomnesia, analgesia and 356 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
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döden
about death in its different forms.
euthanasia, autopsy, post mortem, disinter, rigor mortis, necropolis, requiem, epitaph, exhumation, sepulchre, sarcophagus, terminal burrowing and 60 more...
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List I
effortless, sloppy, undignified, sprawled, paradigm, asinine, reek, stench, impassive, devoid, meticulously, logical fallacy and 79 more...
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oren's Words
vespertine, mercurial, parochial, septuagenarian, occident, pansystemic, vilify, redemptive, pentatauch, machiavellian, digress, malapropos and 53 more...
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bbagins's Words
prowess, melancholy, serendipity, canonical, wretch, surmise, satirical, petrify, enunciate, oxymoron, oxymoron, dolt and 87 more...
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KaleidoscopeEyes's Words
necrosis, lovely, atrium, serendipity, plasticine, invaginate, genuflect, akimbo, denizen, falstaffian, deviate, nostalgic and 45 more...
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