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Necrosis   /nəkrˈoʊsəs/   Listen
Necrosis

noun
1.
The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply).  Synonyms: gangrene, mortification, sphacelus.



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"Necrosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... osteography, ossify, ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary, osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur, impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ossifying, ostalgia, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
 
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... had just pronounced the Grand Duchess's disease—they were an afflicted family—a disease his narrator couldn't pronounce at all. Most of her bones, in a state of necrosis, had been skilfully removed by the time the smokers had passed back. But so much more was Dr. Conrad listening to what the waves said to the shingle and the shingle answered back, than to either the Grand Duchess or the registry-office, that it never crossed his mind whose the voice was who lit ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
 
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Words linked to "Necrosis" :   death, necrotic



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