Thesaurus: necrosis

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1. n. 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.
2. n. A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.
3. n. the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
4. 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. 2. (Bot.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.
5. Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone orportion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by moleculardisintegration. See Caries.
6. n:100 n. the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)