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necrosis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Necrosis  \Ne*cro"sis\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  gr  ?,  fr  ?  to  make  dead, 
  to  mortify,  ?  a  dead  body.] 
  1.  (med.)  Mortification  or  gangrene  of  bone,  or  the  death  of 
  a  bone  or  portion  of  a  bone  in  mass,  as  opposed  to  its 
  death  by  molecular  disintegration.  See  {Caries}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  necrosis 
  n  :  the  localized  death  of  living  cells  (as  from  the 
  interruption  of  blood  supply)  [syn:  {local  death}] 




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