necrotic

Example Sentences

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Of course, she’s also spending less time on Twitter in general, which is a trend that started long before the necrotic presence of Musk.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2023

"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

Caravaggio pins the scene down to its material facts: the confused faces of the onlookers, the downcast faces of the sisters, the necrotic body of Lazarus, the supernatural authority of Christ.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020

I thought about it for a moment and then I turned to a physician, whomever was there at the moment and I said, "It's necrotic lung."

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2020

At this time it was found in certain treatments that the trees that had not shown any appreciable amount of scorch heretofore had some severely necrotic leaves on them.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association