necrosis
The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption…The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.
» Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare side effect of many medications in which the body undergoes rapid necrosis.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.
Usually gangrene will follow necrosis unless the dead tissue is resected.
Nekrose, Gewebetod
некро́зnekróz
некро́зnekróz
the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Examples
4 sentencesNecrotizing fasciitis is a rare side effect of many medications in which the body undergoes rapid necrosis.
Necrosis can be fatal.
ruНекроз может быть смертельным.
Necrosis is unpleasant.
I possess the tendency to desire the omnipredicativity in an artificial language. The absence of it relegates a language to virtual necrosis.
Translations
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Origin
From Ancient Greek νέκρωσις (nékrōsis), equivalent to necro- + -osis.From Ancient Greek νέκρωσις (nékrōsis), equivalent to necro- + -osis.
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Forms
plural: necrosesSynonyms
3 synonyms- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply):mortificationgangrenesphacelus
Word family
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