adjective
- affected by necrosis; having undergone tissue death
Usage: medical/technical term; British spelling (American: necrotized)
verb
- past tense and past participle of necrotise; to cause tissue death in; to undergo necrosis
Usage: medical/technical term; British spelling (American: necrotize)
Examples
- The infection caused the tissue to become necrotised within days.
- Doctors identified necrotised bone in the X-ray.
- The wound necrotised after the blood supply was cut off.
- Necrotised cells were removed during the surgical procedure.
- The frostbite necrotised the outer layers of skin.
- Without proper treatment, the infected area necrotised rapidly.