necrobiosisn.

1860 F. Chance tr. R. Virchow Cellular Pathol. xv. 358 This latter course, where the cells are destroyed during the course of the process, I proposed a few years ago to designate by a term which has been employed to express disease generally by K. H. Schultz, viz., Necrobiosis [Ger. Nekrobiose].

1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 717 The majority of cases of softening are..the result of suspended nutrition (necrobiosis).

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 517 A circumscribed loss of substance of one or more coats of the stomach by a process which appears to be a necrobiosis.

1931 Q. Rev. Biol. 6 167/1 Death never occurs instantaneously. The problem of death involves, therefore, the problem of its gradual development or necrobiosis, which may result as well from normal life as from latent life or anabiosis.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 29 Feb. 503/2 These changes, as well as the presence of foci of necrobiosis of the respiratory-bronchiolar epithelium,..have also been described in infants and experimental animals with oxygen toxicity.

1980 New Phytologist 84 726 Dostal..described necrobiosis in the extension zone of potato sprouts growing in darkness and showed that this was caused by calcium deficiency.

2000 Bull. Exper. Biol. & Med. 130 813 Acute experimental lipogenic pancreatitis is characterized by extensive destructive changes in the pancreatic parenchyma accompanied with fatty necrobiosis of hepatocytes.