necrotic
Dead and rotting
Necrotic describes tissue that has died, usually while still attached to a living body.
The adjective derives from necrosis, the medical term for localized tissue death caused by disease, injury, or lack of blood supply.
A necrotic wound shows dead, often blackened flesh that must typically be removed for healing to occur.
The surgeon debrided the necrotic tissue from the burn site.
Necrotic appears occasionally in figurative contexts to suggest something rotting from within.
Tissue death from bloodlessness
- sepsisDangerous inflammatory infection response
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- ulcerationFormation of open sores
- cellulitisSubcutaneous bacterial infection
osteomyelitis · fasciitis · abscess · ischemia · infarction · debridement · amputation · wound
Necrotic tissue crust
- sloughBoggy ground or cast-off skin
- autolysisCell's enzymatic self-destruction
- granulationMaking into small grains
- exudateInflammatory vessel leakage
fibrin · inflammation · macrophages · phagocytosis · leukocytes · platelets · perfusion · ischemic
Breakdown into simpler parts
- putrefactionBacterial breakdown of tissue
- putridDecomposed and foul-smelling
- rottingOrganic matter decomposing
- festeringBecoming infected, decaying
moldering · putrescent · deterioration · breakdown · disintegration · wasting · atrophy · spoilage
gangrene
Tissue death from bloodlessness
- sepsisDangerous inflammatory infection response
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- ulcerationFormation of open sores
cellulitis · osteomyelitis · fasciitis · abscess · ischemia · infarction · debridement · amputation · wound · bedsores
eschar
Necrotic tissue crust
- sloughBoggy ground or cast-off skin
- autolysisCell's enzymatic self-destruction
- granulationMaking into small grains
exudate · fibrin · inflammation · macrophages · phagocytosis · leukocytes · platelets · perfusion · ischemic · avascular
decomposition
Breakdown into simpler parts
- putrefactionBacterial breakdown of tissue
- putridDecomposed and foul-smelling
- rottingOrganic matter decomposing
festering · moldering · putrescent · deterioration · breakdown · disintegration · wasting · atrophy · spoilage · degradation
blackened
Darkened by burning
- foulOffensive or illegal
- malodorousHaving a bad smell
- fetidHaving foul odor
rank · stinking · discolored · mottled · sloughing · weeping · oozing · pungent
- radiology findingsconsolidation, opacity, nodule, calcification, effusion
- cell termscellular, cytoplasmic, nuclear, mitotic, eukaryotic
- tissue stateshealthy, diseased, inflamed, viable, nonviable
- spoiledrotten, rotted, rotting, spoiled, spoiling
- undeadzombie, vampire, ghost, lich, skeleton
- muscle conditionstoned, flexed, relaxed, tense, tight
necrotichealing
Restoration of health
regenerating · recovering · granulating · proliferating · revitalizing