necrotic

American

[nuh-krot-ik, ne-] / nəˈkrɒt ɪk, nɛ- /

adjective

(of animal or plant tissue) dead or dying.

Treatment includes prompt and extensive surgical debridement of all necrotic tissue and removal of foreign bodies from the wound, accompanied by appropriate antibiotic therapy.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

postnecrotic

adjective

Etymology

Origin of necrotic

necr(osis) ( def. ) + -otic ( def. )

Example Sentences

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It was starting to become black—the telltale sign of dying, necrotic tissue.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2024

"He's in excruciating agony because his hip bones are now no longer ball or socket, just jagged, worn, necrotic bones on bones. There are cysts in the joints where cartilage once lived," Mrs Speirs said.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024

Caravaggio pins the scene down to its material facts: the confused faces of the onlookers, the downcast faces of the sisters, the necrotic body of Lazarus, the supernatural authority of Christ.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020

I thought about it for a moment and then I turned to a physician, whomever was there at the moment and I said, "It's necrotic lung."

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2020

In tissue thus become necrotic the bacillus finds such unfavorable conditions of nourishment that it can grow no more and sometimes dies.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various

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