necrotic
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Ninety-percent of her flipper was necrotic, and veterinary staff promptly removed the dead tissue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
It was starting to become black—the telltale sign of dying, necrotic tissue.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 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
"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
The Actual Cautery.—Largely of the same empirical nature, yet doing something a little more calculated to destroy necrotic tissue and bring about its sloughing is the use of the cautery, both actual and potential.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
