Necrosis (death) of an area of tissue in the body, esp. as a result of impairment of its blood supply, often accompanied by bacterial infection and…

Death of part of the body, esp. of an extremity; localized necrosis of tissue; gangrene; an instance of this. Also (rare): withering or blight of a…

Pathology. Mortification. Obsolete.

Necrotic flesh, or the process of producing this. Cf. superfluity, n. 5. Obsolete.

Loss of viability of tissue or of a part of the body of an organism; = necrosis, n. 1. Cf. mortification, n. 2.

Pathology. Death of tissue or cells; an instance or area of this.

Necrosis, mortification; an instance of this.

The process of becoming gangrenous; = gangrene, n. 1.

Medicine. The shrivelling or destruction of a part or tissue of the body; mortification, necrosis. Now rare.

= sphacelus, n.

= necrosis, n.

The fact or process of becoming mortified; the formation of a sphacelus.

Death of cells, esp. as the result of ageing or other normal or abnormal physiological process; an instance of this.