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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.

process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.

foliatum); -- called also feverwort amd horse gentian. -- Fever sore, a carious ulcer or necrosis. Miner.

To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis. Quain.

Affected by necrosis; dead; as, a necrosed bone. Dunglison.

Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.

- Phosphorus disease (Med.), a disease common among workers in phosphorus, giving rise to necrosis of the jawbone, and other symptoms. -- Red, or Amorphous, phosphorus (Chem.), an allotropic modification of phosphorus, obtained as a dark red powder by heating ordinary phosphorus in closed vessels. It is not poisonous,…

A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.