necrotic

adjective

ne·crot·ic nə-ˈkrä-tik

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: affected with, characterized by, or producing death of a usually localized area of living tissue : marked by necrosis

Necrotic lesions of the cornea may lead to permanent blindness or impaired vision.—

Tim Beardsley

… localized areas of skin become necrotic as a result of vascular calcification.—

Mark Lebwohl

Section of an ulcer shows a superficial layer of fibrin and necrotic debris which forms the slough …—

R. A. Cawson

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web They’re also vaccinated against Newcastle disease, a respiratory illness; infectious bronchitis; and acute necrotic proventriculitis, a viral disease that affects the immune system. —

Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023 Once & Future observed that there is something rather…necrotic about our era of endless revamps and reboots of old material. —

Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022 His feet became necrotic, meaning his tissue had died, according to the complaint. —

Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022 The venom from the recluse is a potent cytotoxin that can cause necrotic lesions that could take months to heal. —

al, 28 June 2022 In fact, when Betty died, some of the cells in her left lung were already necrotic, indicating that her lungs had been infected a few days prior to her death. —

Niran Al-agba, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2022 While necrotic wounds were a regular occurrence, predation was not; since 2012, the researchers have lost just one Javan slow loris to a predator, which was a feral dog. —

Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020 The impatiens necrotic spot virus and the disease Pythium wilt have both been around for years. —

Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022 Brown severed a 62-year-old patient's necrotic foot on May 27. —

Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022 See More

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