| necrosadism | Sexual gratification derived by mutilating corpses. Origin: necro-+ sadism (05 Mar 2000) |
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| necroscopy | Rarely used term for autopsy. Origin: necro-+ G. Skopeo, to examine (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrose | <medicine> To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| necrosectomy | Resection of necrotic tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrosed | <medicine> Affected by necrosis; dead; as, a necrosed bone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| necrosis | <pathology> The sum of the morphological changes indicative of cell death and caused by the progressive degradative action of enzymes, it may affect groups of cells or part of a structure or an organ. Origin: Gr. Nekrosis = deadness (18 Nov 1997) |
| necrosis bacillus | A species of gram-negative, non-spore-forming bacteria isolated from the natural cavities of man and other animals and from necrotic lesions, abscesses, and blood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| necrospermia | A condition in which there are dead or immobile spermatozoa in the semen. Origin: necro-+ G. Sperma, seed (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrosteon | Necrosteosis Gangrene of bone. Origin: necro-+ G. Osteon, bone (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotic | <medicine> Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterised by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| necrotic angina | An obsolete term for a form of angina occurring usually as a complication of scarlet fever and more rarely of diphtheria, in which gangrenous patches are found in the mucous membrane of the air passages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotic cirrhosis | Post-necrotic cirrhosis, cirrhosis characterised by necrosis involving whole hepatic lobules, with collapse of the reticular framework to form large scars; regeneration nodules are also large; may follow viral or toxic necrosis, or develop as a result of ischemic necrosis. Synonym: necrotic cirrhosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotic cyst | A cyst due to a circumscribed encapsulated area of necrosis with subsequent liquefaction of the dead tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotic infectious conjunctivitis | A unilateral, suppurative, necrotic inflammation of the conjunctiva characterised by scattered, elevated white spots in the fornices and palpebral conjunctiva, and ipsilateral swelling of preauricular, parotid, and submaxillary lymph glands. Synonym: Pascheff's conjunctivitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotic inflammation | Usually an acute inflammatory reaction in which the predominant histologic change is fairly rapid necrosis that occurs diffusely or extensively in relatively large foci throughout the affected tissue, frequently with only little or no evidence of cells in the exudate. (05 Mar 2000) |