necrotic
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It was starting to become black—the telltale sign of dying, necrotic tissue.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2024
"He's in excruciating agony because his hip bones are now no longer ball or socket, just jagged, worn, necrotic bones on bones. There are cysts in the joints where cartilage once lived," Mrs Speirs said.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024
Conveniently, Ernest’s personality has been wiped by a case of necrotic amnesia that allows this Greatest Generation ghost to pal around with today’s teenagers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
The virus, impatiens necrotic spot virus, or INSV, and the disease, Pythium wilt, have both been around for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
In tissue thus become necrotic the bacillus finds such unfavorable conditions of nourishment that it can grow no more and sometimes dies.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
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