NECROSIS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.

2.
n.

A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.


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