necrosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νέκρωσις (nékrōsis), equivalent to necro- +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

necrosis (plural necroses)

1. (pathology) The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply. (Usually gangrene will follow unless the dead tissue is resected).
   • 2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia [14 ].

Derived terms

• adiponecrosis
• angionecrosis
• antinecrosis
• aponecrosis
• arteriolonecrosis
• avascular necrosis
• bionecrosis
• caseous necrosis
• chondronecrosis
• cytonecrosis
• dermonecrosis
• fibronecrosis
• liponecrosis
• micronecrosis
• myonecrosis
• necrolysis
• necrotic
• osteochemonecrosis
• osteonecrosis
• osteoradionecrosis
• pannecrosis
• phosphonecrosis
• phosphorus necrosis
• photonecrosis
• pyronecrosis
• radionecrosis
• spongionecrosis
• steatonecrosis
• tubulonecrosis
• tumor necrosis factor

 

Related terms

• necrobiosis

Translations

localized death of cells or tissue

• Afrikaans: nekrose
• Albanian: nekroza f
• Arabic: نَخِر m (naḵir)
• Armenian: նեկրոզ (hy) (nekroz)
• Basque: nekrosi
• Belarusian: некроз m (njekróz)
• Bulgarian: некроза f (nekroza)
• Carpathian Rusyn: некроза f (nekroza)
• Catalan: necrosi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 壞死 / 坏死 (waai⁶ sei²)

  Hokkien: 壞死 / 坏死 (hoāi-sí)

  Mandarin: 壞死 / 坏死 (zh) (huàisǐ)

• Czech: nekróza (cs)
• Danish: nekrose (da) c
• Dutch: necrose (nl) f, afsterving (nl) f
• Esperanto: nekrozo
• Estonian: nekroos
• Finnish: kuolio (fi), nekroosi (fi)
• French: nécrose (fr) f
• Galician: necrose (gl) f
• German: Nekrose (de) f, Gewebetod

  Alemannic German: Nekrose f

• Greek: νέκρωση (el) f (nékrosi)

  Ancient: νέκρωσις f (nékrōsis)

• Gujarati: પરિગલન (pariglan)
• Hebrew: נקרוזה (he) f (necrosa)
• Hindi: परिगलन (pariglan)
• Hungarian: elhalás (hu), nekrózis (hu), sejtelhalás (hu), szövetelhalás (hu)
• Icelandic: drep n
• Ido: nekroso (io)
• Irish: neacróis f
• Italian: necrosi (it)
• Japanese: 壊死 (ja) (えし, eshi)
• Kazakh: некроз (nekroz), өліеттену (ölıettenu)
• Korean: 괴사 (ko) (goesa)
• Kyrgyz: некроз (nekroz)
• Latvian: nekroze f
• Lithuanian: nekrozė f
• Macedonian: некроза f (nekroza)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nekrose m

  Nynorsk: nekrose m

• Occitan: necròsi (oc) f
• Persian: مردگی (fa) (mordegi)
• Polish: martwica (pl) f, nekroza (pl) f
• Portuguese: necrose (pt) f
• Romanian: necroză (ro) f
• Russian: некро́з (ru) m (nekróz)
• Scottish Gaelic: neacrois f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: некро́за f

  Roman: nekróza (sh) f

• Slovak: nekróza f
• Slovene: nekroza f, mrtvina f
• Spanish: necrosis (es) f
• Swedish: nekros (sv) c
• Tamil: நசிவு (ta) (nacivu)
• Thai: การตายเฉพาะส่วน (gaan-dtaai-chà-pór-sùan)
• Turkish: nekroz (tr)
• Ukrainian: некро́з m (nekróz)
• Vietnamese: hoại tử (vi) (壞死)

Anagrams

• Cisneros, Ericsson, Sconiers, sensoric

Interlingua

Alternative forms

• necrose

Noun

necrosis (uncountable)

1. necrosis

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin necrōsis, from Ancient Greek νέκρωσις (nékrōsis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neˈkɾosis/ [neˈkɾo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: ne‧cro‧sis

Noun

necrosis f (plural necrosis)

1. necrosis

Related terms

• necrosar
• necrótico
• necrotizar

 

Further reading

• “necrosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10