Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Necrosis |
NecrosisNoun1. The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "necrosis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Etymology: Necrosis \Ne*cro"sis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to make dead, to mortify, a dead body.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | Death of plant or animal cells or tissues. In plants, necrosis can discolor stems or leaves or kill a plant entirely. Negotiations (Under Superfund): After potentially responsible parties are identified for a site, EPA coordinates with them to reach a settlement that will result in the PRP paying for or conducting the cleanup under EPA supervision. If negotiations fail, EPA can order the PRP to conduct the cleanup or EPA can pay for the cleanup using Superfund monies and then sue to recover the costs. (references) |
Health | A pathological process caused by the progressive degradative action of enzymes that is generally associated with severe cellular trauma. It is characterized by mitochondrial swelling, nuclear flocculation, uncontrolled cell lysis, and ultimately cell death. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Necrosis."
Synonyms: NecrosisSynonyms: gangrene (n), mortification (n), sphacelus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some drugs had opposite effects on necrosis and apoptosis. (references) | |
In many cases, necrosis and apoptosis probably occur in parallel. (references) | ||
Necrosis was prominent in rats subjected to severe spinal cord trauma. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | Opportunities also exists for relaxin, rennin, clot-dissolving agents, insulin, interferons, interleukins and anticancer therapeutics, human growth hormones, erythropoietin, blood factors VIII & XI, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, streptokinase tissue necrosis factor. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Necrosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Necrosis" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 114 | 30,294 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "necrosis": baculoviral midgut gland necrosis ♦ Dental Pulp Necrosis ♦ Fat Necrosis ♦ Femur Head Necrosis ♦ infectious haematopoietic necrosis ♦ Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus ♦ Kidney Cortex Necrosis ♦ Kidney Papillary Necrosis ♦ phosphorus necrosis ♦ spleen necrosis virus ♦ tubular necrosis ♦ tumor necrosis factor ♦ tumour necrosis factor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
avascular necrosis | 233 |
necrosis | 134 |
vascular necrosis | 25 |
fat necrosis | 24 |
aseptic necrosis | 22 |
acute tubular necrosis | 15 |
skin necrosis | 10 |
radiation necrosis | 9 |
avascular femoral head necrosis | 7 |
bone necrosis | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "necrosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nekrozë, vdekje qelizash. (various references) | |
Arabic | التنكرز موت موضعي يحلل بالنسيج الحي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гангренясване (mortification), гангрена (canker, gangrene), некроза. (various references) | |
Chinese | 坏死. (various references) | |
Czech | odumírání. (various references) | |
Danish | nekrose (dead arm). (various references) | |
Dutch | necrose (dead arm). (various references) | |
Finnish | nekroosi. (various references) | |
French | nécrose. (various references) | |
German | Nekrose (dead arm). (various references) | |
Greek | νέκρωση (mortification). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תמקקות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | elhalás (mortification), szövetelhalás, kihalás (extinction), elszáradás (shrivelling), elüszkösödés, csontüszök, üszög (blight, canker, mildew, mole, rust). (various references) | |
Italian | necrosi (dead arm). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 壊死 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | えし (artist, painter, painter supported by patron). (various references) | |
Manx | yn chingys Yernagh (Irish disease, salmon disease, ulcerated dermal necrosis). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecrosisnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | necrose (canker, mortifier, nectar). (various references) | |
Romanian | necrozã. (various references) | |
Russian | омертвение (mortification, sphacelate), некроз (mortification). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nekroza. (various references) | |
Spanish | necrosis (dead arm). (various references) | |
Swedish | vävnadsdöd, nekros (dead arm). (various references) | |
Turkish | nekroz, kangren (gangrene, mortification, sphacelation), doku ölmesi. (various references) | |
Ukranian | омервіння, некроз. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Necrosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encross, necros, nectosis, Nekrasov, Neochromis, neorosis, neucrosis, Newroses, nicrosis, Notropsis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "necrosis" (pronounced nukrō"sus) |
| 5 | -r ō" s u s | fibrosis, nephrosis, neurosis. |
| 4 | -ō" s u s | acidosis, apotheosis, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, cirrhosis, diagnosis, heterosis, hypnosis, meiosis, misdiagnosis, neurofibromatosis, prognosis, psychosis, sclerosis, symbiosis, thrombosis, tuberculosis. |
| 3 | -s u s | amniocentesis, analysis, antithesis, archdiocese, axis, catharsis, census, colossus, consensus, crisis, dialysis, diocese, electrolysis, Genesis, geotaxis, glacis, homeostasis, hydrolysis, hypothesis, metamorphosis, morphogenesis, Narcissus, nemesis, nexus, organogenesis, photosynthesis, phototaxis, plexus, preadolescence, proboscis, prosthesis, psoriasis, psychoanalysis, psychokinesis, rhesus, synopsis, synthesis, Tarsus, telexes, Texas, thesis, urinalysis, versus. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: censors, cession, coiners, cosines, cronies, incross, orceins, oscines, recoins, seniors, sonsier. | |
-2 letters: censor, coiner, conies, corses, cosier, cosies, cosine, crises, crones, crosse, enosis, eosins, essoin, icones, irones, noesis, noises, nosier, orcein, orcins, oscine, osiers, ossein, recoin, recons, resins, rinses, rosins, scions, scones, scores, scorns, scries, seisor, senior, senors, sensor, serins, sirens, snores, sonics, sonsie. | |
-3 letters: ceros, cines, cions, cires, coins, coirs, cones, cores, corns, corse, coses, cosie, cress, cries, crone, cross, eosin, icons, irone, irons, nicer, noirs, noise, noris, noses, onces, orcin, ornis, osier, recon, reins, resin, rices, rinse, risen, rises, roses, rosin, scion, scone, score, scorn, senor, serin, sices, since, sines, siren, sires, snore, sones, sonic, sores, sorns. | |
-4 letters: cero, cess, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, cone, coni, cons, core, corn, cors, coss, cris, eons, erns, eros, ices, icon, inro, ions, ires, iron, ness, nice, noes, noir, nori, nose, once, ones, orcs, ores, oses, recs, rein, reis, rice, rins, rise, rocs, roes, rose, secs, seis, sers, sice, sics, sine, sins, sire, sirs, sone, sons, sore, sori, sorn, sris. | |
-5 letters: cis, con, cor, cos, ens, eon, ern, ers, ess, ice, ins, ion, ire, nor, nos, oes, one, ons, orc, ore, ors, ose, rec, rei, res, rin, roc, roe, sec, sei, sen, ser, sic, sin, sir, sis, son, sos, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: coinsures, considers, conspires, corkiness, corniness, cosigners, forensics, inclosers, incorpses, incrossed, incrosses, licensors, noncrises, recession, recisions, resorcins, rockiness, scenarios. | |
+2 letters: arccosines, censorious, censorship, coinsurers, conscribes, cornetists, cortisones, cousinries, encrimsons, excursions, inclosures, inspectors, intercross, isochrones, misreckons, necropsies, percussion, precession, precisions, processing, procession, recensions, recessions, reclusions, recognises, recrossing, recursions, rescission, resections, sclerosing, sclerotins, secretions, supersonic. | |
+3 letters: censorships, coinvestors, compressing, compression, concretisms, concretists, congressing, connoisseur, constringes, consumerism, consumerist, conversions, coprisoners, cordialness, coresidents, corkinesses, cornettists, corninesses, courtliness, curiousness, cursoriness, disconcerts, discounters, discretions, grouchiness, intercessor, introspects, marchioness, minicourses, misconstrue, percussions, precessions, preclusions, processions, prosceniums, reaccession, recessional, reconsiders, rediscounts, refocussing, rescissions, resorcinols, rockinesses, scorpaenids, scroungiest, secondaries, sniperscope, supersonics, supertonics, surjections, synchronies, synchronise, trichinoses, trisections. | |
+4 letters: absorbancies, absorbencies, asynchronies, bronchitises, censoriously, ceratopsians, chairpersons, chansonniers, chinoiseries, coerciveness, coinsurances, commissioner, compressions, concessioner, connoisseurs, conservatism, consistories, conspiracies, consumerisms, consumerists, consumership, contrariness, contriteness, conveyorises, copresidents, coprocessing, countersigns, countersinks, counterspies, countersuits, countrysides, cowardliness, creationisms, creationists, cycloserines, descriptions, desecrations, destructions, discordances, egocentrisms, excursionist, fluoresceins, forcibleness, frictionless, graciousness, icosahedrons, imprecisions, insectivores, intercession, intercessors, intercessory, intercostals, intercourses, intercrossed, intercrosses, interschools, ironicalness, microseconds, misconstrued, misconstrues, miscreations, narcolepsies, necrologists, necropolises, neuroticisms, nondescripts, overcastings, overissuance, persecutions, precessional, preciousness, precisionist, preconscious, prefocussing, prerecession, processional, processioned, prolificness, prosecutions, reaccessions, recessionals, recessionary, recommission, repercussion, reprocessing, restrictions, retrocession, rhinoceroses, rhinoscopies, romanticises, sniperscopes, stringcourse, synchronised, synchronises, synchronizes, testcrossing, transections, uncensorious. | |
+5 letters: accessorising, accessorizing, anticonsumers, antirecession, atrociousness, chondriosomes, commissioners, compressional, comradeliness, concessionary, concessioners, confirmedness, congressional, consecrations, conservancies, conservations, conservatisms, conservatives, conservatizes, considerables, consumeristic, consumerships, containerises, containerless, controversies, conversancies, conversations, coprocessings, cordialnesses, corresponsive, corrosiveness, cosignatories, counselorship, counterpoises, counterstains, courtlinesses, crossbreeding, crosschecking, crotchetiness, curiousnesses, cursorinesses, customariness, cyclosporines, decompressing, decompression, directionless, discordancies, econometrists, encrustations, eviscerations, excursionists, ferociousness, ferrosilicons, fractiousness, frontispieces, gastrocnemius, grouchinesses, incorrectness, incorruptness, incuriosities, incuriousness, indiscretions, inobservances, insectivorous, inspectorates, inspectorship, insurrections, intercessions, intercrossing, intersections, ludicrousness, marchionesses, microanalyses, microfunguses, misconceivers, misdirections, mispronounces, necrophilisms, neurochemists, neurosciences, nondisclosure, nondiscursive, noninsurances, nonresidences, nonresistance, obstetricians, omnipresences, overconscious, overdiscounts, overfocussing, overissuances, percussionist, personalistic, pictorialness, polycentrisms, postrecession, precisionists, preprocessing, prescriptions, preselections, proboscideans, processionals, processioning, pyrotechnists, rapaciousness, receptionists, recommissions, reconditeness, reconstitutes, reconversions, reductionisms, reductionists, reescalations, reinspections, repercussions, resurrections, resuscitation, retinoscopies, retrocessions, ribonucleases, scatterations, scenographies, schizophrenes, secondariness, sensitometric, stereopticons, streptomycins, stringcourses, subcontraries, synchronizers, theocentrisms, transfections, veraciousness, vicariousness, voraciousness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 63 72 6F 73 69 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . -.-. .-. --- ... .. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e c r o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0063 0072 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4871698481857585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
