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Necrosis   Listen
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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



... eating away, whose hip was attacked by an abscess, and in whom there were already signs of necrosis of the vertebrae, seemed to take a passionate interest in the agony he thus beheld. It did not frighten him, he smiled at it with a smile ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... usually described: erythema, superficial vesication, and necrosis. The first and second may come on shortly—a few hours to several days—after exposure; occasionally later. The third grade may present also in the first several days, but in many cases one to several weeks may elapse before it appears; it is quite ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon



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