Dictionary Entry
necrosis
necrosis is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.
- 3noun
the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
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