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NECROLYSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does necrolysis mean?
• NECROLYSIS (noun)
The noun NECROLYSIS has 1 sense:
1. disintegration and dissolution of dead tissue
Familiarity information: NECROLYSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disintegration and dissolution of dead tissue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("necrolysis" is a kind of...):
lysis ((biochemistry) dissolution or destruction of cells such as blood cells or bacteria)
Context examples
A peeling off or loss of epidermis, as in sunburn, postscarlatinal peeling, or toxic epidermal necrolysis.
(Peeling, NCI Thesaurus)
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