necrotic

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The reason became clear: Microbes were feasting on Assi’s necrotic flesh.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2024

It was starting to become black—the telltale sign of dying, necrotic tissue.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2024

"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

That's the only good answer, yes it must be necrotic lung.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2020

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