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Necrosis   Listen
noun
Necrosis  n.  
1.
(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.
2.
(Bot.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.





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"Necrosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... the circulation. Secondary toxic centres often develop in the course of this disease, notably in the glands, lungs and dependent organs, the hypostatic congestion resulting from lying in one position, causing stasis of blood, death and necrosis of tissue, both of the external and internal organs. All vessels connected with the dying tissues carry toxins to other parts of the body. Suppurating glands, and phlebitis of the femoral veins are examples of this secondary infection, and are accountable ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen


Words linked to "Necrosis" :   necrotic, mortification, mumification necrosis, progressive emphysematous necrosis, gangrene, tumour necrosis factor, sphacelus, death, tumor necrosis factor, myonecrosis


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