necrotic
Americanadjective
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Ninety-percent of her flipper was necrotic, and veterinary staff promptly removed the dead tissue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
Some of the tissue that has held us together and kept us alive is already necrotic.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025
It was starting to become black—the telltale sign of dying, necrotic tissue.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024
"On both her back and her hip, the tissue had become completely necrotic and her wounds infected with MRSA. She developed osteomyelitis and overwhelming sepsis."
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2022
In diphtheritic endometritis the gangrenous process may attack the muscular tissue, and give rise to losses of muscular substance—a condition known as necrotic endometritis or putrescence of the uterus.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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