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

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

Instead, the injured part becomes necrotic, is unable to cast itself off, and remains as a centre of infection in the depths of the wound, thus constituting what is known as a quittor.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton