necrosev.

1823 J. Syme Probationary Ess. Necrosis 6 We frequently, in this country at least, hear surgeons expressing a hope that the bones of their patients are necrosing, and styling this a salutary process.

1873 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. 283 The cartilages often necrose.

1931 Q. Rev. Biol. 6 323/1 The plants were given various exposures on consecutive days and after 16 days from the first exposure the tumors..began suddenly to necrose.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xv. 385 Osteomata may become inflamed or they may become carious or necrose.

1975 Infection & Immunity 12 505 There was a tendency for syphilitic lesions..to necrose more rapidly in controls.

1993 Brit. Med. Bull. 49 545 Ischaemic myocardial tissue will, inevitably, necrose if blood flow is not restored.

1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Necrose, to affect with necrosis; to undergo necrosis.

1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. xii. 57/1 Attempts may be made to reduce tumour mass by..embolization of the hepatic artery to necrose the metastases.

2002 Amer. Jrnl. Kidney Dis. 39 966 Transarterial embolization is used to necrose the angiomyolipoma while sparing normal renal tissue.

1891 Cent. Mag. Apr. 957/2 Injection of this substance into the body of a patient..thus intensifies and accelerates the destructive, the necrosing, process going on under the influence of the disease.

1897 Albutt's Syst. Med. V. 969 Producing inflammatory or necrosing changes in the tissues.

1934 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 115 92 Nor had it yet been determined whether the extract had been rendered wholy [sic] free from posterior lobe hormone, the necrosing effects of which might be conceivably troublesome.

1976 European Neurol. 14 29 Light microscopy disclosed necrosing encephalopathy.

2001 Endocrinology 142 4486 The rete testis is blocked by aberrantly located Sertoli cells, creating a tailback of necrosing sperm in the testis.