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n. Death of cells or tissues through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of the body.

n. The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.

n. The pathologic death of part of a tissue due to irreversible damage. Contrast to necrobiosis, which is a normal death of cells in a tissue. Formerly, applied primarily to death of bone tissue.

n. A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.

n. In pathology, the death of a circumscribed piece of tissue.

n. In botany, a disease of plants, chiefly found upon the leaves and soft parenchymatous parts.

n. A disease of the grape, attributed to Bacillus vitivorus.

n. the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)

"Dr. Detlef Weigel and colleagues found that one mechanism, hybrid necrosis, is associated with a plant defense gene."

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ischemia    fibrosis    edema    abscess    hemorrhage    angiogenesis    inflammation    degeneration    apoptosis    ulceration