The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)

Usage examples of necrosis.

Pyrogen is released from leukocytes, adding fever to hemorrhage, necrosis, and shock.

If the leper is in hiding, he cannot be operated upon, the necrosis will continue to eat its way up the bone of the leg, and in a brief and horrible time that leper will die of gangrene or some other terrible complication.

Martin had been quite certain that necrosis of his shinbone had set in from the roots of the amazing colony he elected to cultivate in that locality.

I make cause of death as either shock or a massive failure and necrosis of several major organs, plus tissue damage from an outrageously high fever.

We checked them for obvious signs, like tumors or necrosis, and then we ran them through the big machines from Route 128.

Imagine: a stable necrosis, where the only sentience in the High Beyond is the Blight.

Some fibers are missing their nuclei, indicating necrosis, or the death of tissue, and other slides reveal pink-and-blue-stained inflammation and old scarring, and narrowing of the coronary arteries.

Patchy necrosis and fibrosis of varying age, and chronic ischemia, plus an absence of coronary artery disease or cardiomegaly.

It looked good: no swelling, no necrosis, no gap between the baboon and the microchip.

Charlotte wondered, as the doctor unwrapped the bandages covering her hands and mumbled something about minimizing necrosis and physical therapy.

The eventual result is general paralysis, necrosis of the limb extremities, and termination.

Poncet hastened a cure in a case of necrosis with partial destruction of the periosteum by inserting grafts taken from the bones of a dead infant and from a kid.

On the contrary, some of the rats that showed no liver cell necrosis had reportedly existed for twelve weeks on doses that other workers had found to be 100 percent lethal.