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How to use necrosis in a sentence

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Necrosis means the localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply. Example: “Usually gangrene will follow necrosis unless the dead tissue is resected.”

Examples of necrosis by meaning

nounThe localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.

  • Usually gangrene will follow necrosis unless the dead tissue is resected.
  • These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia.2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

More sentences with necrosis

  • Thus, relevant mid-term complications, such as humeral head necrosis, malunion and nonunion may not have been detected.2015 July 4, Benjamin Bockmann et al., “Mid-term results of a less-invasive locking plate fixation method for proximal humeral fractures…. From the entry malunion
  • Following laparoscopic ileocecectomy, pathology demonstrated haemorrhage, inflammation, oedema and full thickness necrosis of the caecal wall.2013 July 26, Kara Lee Gallagher, “Ischaemic diverticular disease may mimic acute appendicitis”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI. From the entry ileocecectomy
  • Severe scleritis additionally involves fibrinoid necrosis with consequent tissue loss seen clinically as scleral thinning (scleromalacia).2009, Venki Sundaram, Training in Ophthalmology. From the entry scleromalacia
  • ( F ) Higher magnification showing coagulative necrosis with loss of nuclear detail in hepatocytes.1997 October 31, Chris Paszty et al., “Transgenic Knockout Mice with Exclusively Human Sickle Hemoglobin and Sickle Cell Disease”, in…. From the entry coagulative
  • C) Diffuse depletion of white pulp with lymphocytolysis and necrosis.2015 July 6, “Susceptibility of Marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus ) to Monkeypox Virus: A Low Dose Prospective Model for Monkeypox and…. From the entry lymphocytolysis
  • Histopathologically, fibrinopurulent bronchopneumonia with multifocal areas of necrosis and pleuritis was seen in the lungs of infected animals.2015 July 25, Annette Prohl et al., “Acute phase proteins as local biomarkers of respiratory infection in calves”, in BMC Veterinary…. From the entry fibrinopurulent
  • Typical histologic lesions including small areas of necrosis and occasional capillary microthrombii within skeletal muscle and other organs are commonly reported.2015 July 20, Daniel T. Blumstein et al., “The evolution of capture myopathy in hooved mammals: a model for human stress cardiomyopathy?”…. From the entry microthrombii
  • Sometimes, biloma formation can be caused by bile duct necrosis.2015 August 21, Yoo Kyeong Yeom, Ji Hoon Shin, “Complications of Portal Vein Embolization: Evaluation on Cross-Sectional Imaging”, in…. From the entry biloma
  • By utilizing frosted tips, a broader zone of necrosis is possible with facilitation of resection through fibrotic liver.1997, Renzo Dionigi, Juan R. Madariaga, New Technologies for Liver Resections, page 8. From the entry frosted tips
  • The venoms of some vermivorous species contain proteolytic enzymes which cause local necrosis at the site of injection in vertebrates.1969, Frank E Firth, The Encyclopedia of Marine Resources. From the entry vermivorous
  • The most common adverse effects include injection-site redness and swelling, menstrual irregularities, flu-like symptoms (eg, fever, chills, and myalgias), and rarely injection-site necrosis.2017, Joseph T. DiPiro, Robert L. Talbert, Gary C. Yee, Pharmacotherapy. From the entry flu-like
  • According to the hypertumor hypothesis, as tumors grow larger, younger malignant cells take over their parents and outstrip them of their blood supply, resulting in tumor ischemic necrosis.2016, Anca Ioviţă, The Aging Gap Between Species, →ISBN. From the entry hypertumor
  • Among these are Prunus X-disease, pear decline, elm phloem necrosis, apple proliferation, the witches'—broom diseases of paulownia and jujube, and the greening and stubborn diseases of citrus.2012, Karl Maramorosch, Mycoplasma Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, page 35. From the entry X-disease
  • Our results suggest that excessive activation of PARP-1 leads to an intrinsic cell death program, which we designate as parthanatos to distinguish from necrosis and apoptosis.2006, Seong-Woon Yu, “Apoptosis-inducing factor mediates poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) polymer-induced cell death”, in PNAS, volume 103, number 48. From the entry parthanatos
  • Wire sutures generally hamper a normal healing of the fracture, because they act as a foreign body, delay consolidation and quite often lead to necrosis and sequestrum.1944, Filip Pålsson, “Palsson, F. (1944). Orthopaedic Treatment of Fractures of the Lower Jaw in Children: With Special Reference to Two…. From the entry osteorrhaphy
  • Bell and Levy have shown that if the blood supply to the anterior maxilla is interrupted both on its labial and palatal surfaces during ostectomies, the maxilla will undergo necrosis.1972, Canadian Symposium on Dental Research and Education. From the entry ostectomy
  • Since writing this report, we found that the intravenous injection of nucleoprotein, casein, and probably also other albuminous substances may produce small necroses of liver tissue in the guinea pig.1913 May 25, “COLLOIDAL COPPER'S VALUE IN CANCER CASES CONFIRMED; […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry casein

Meaning of necrosis

  1. noun The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.

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Questions about necrosis in a sentence

How do you use necrosis in a sentence?
Necrosis is used as a noun. For example: “Usually gangrene will follow necrosis unless the dead tissue is resected.”
What is a short sentence with necrosis?
“C) Diffuse depletion of white pulp with lymphocytolysis and necrosis.”
What does necrosis mean?
Necrosis means the localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.

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