Necro Words: “adiponecrosis” to “thrombonecrosis”Words that include: necro-, necr-, necron-, -necrosis, nekro- (Greek: dead, death, dead body, dead tissue or cells; corpse)adiponecrosis:
Necrosis of fatty tissue or death of fatty-tissue cells; as in hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
angionecrosis:
Death of blood vessels.
bionecrosis:
See necrobiosis below.
cardionecrosis:
Death of the myocardium.
dermonecrotic:
A reference to any application or illness that may cause necrosis of the skin.
hepatonecrosis:
Death of liver cells.
leukonecrosis:
White gangrene.
myonecrosis:
Necrosis of muscle tissue.
necremia, necraemia:
A situation in which the vital elements of the blood are dead.
necrectomy:
Excision of necrotic (dead) tissue.
necrencephalus:
Encephalomalacia.
necrobacillosis:
Any of several diseased conditions in domestic animals, especially hogs, cattle, horses, and sheep; caused by the necrosis bacillus.
necrobiosis:
1. The degeneration and death of the body’s cells from natural processes.
2. Physiologic or normal death of cells or tissues as a result of changes associated with development, aging, or use. 3. A state of degeneration of a part or tissue in which some portions are alive and others are dead. necrobiotic:
Pertaining to or characterized by necrobiosis.
necrocoenosis:
An assemblage of dead organisms.
necrocoleopterophilous, necrocoleopterophily:
The process of pollinating done by carrion beetles.
necrocytosis:
A process that results in, or a condition that is characterized by, the abnormal or pathological death of cells.
necrocytotoxin:
A toxin that causes cellular necrosis.
necrodermatitis:
An inflammation of the skin that accompanies necrosis.
necroectomy:
The excision (cutting out) of dead tissue.
necrogenic, necrogenous:
1. Relating to, living in, or having origins in dead matter.
2. Growing on, or inhabiting, dead bodies. 3. A reference to organisms or factors that cause decay. 4. Causing cell or tissue death. necrograph:
1. A recording of the death of a person or persons.
2. A written description or discussion about death. necrographer:
One who writes obituaries or about the subject of death.
necrolatrist:
A worshiper of the dead.
necrolatry, necrolatrous:
The worship or excessive veneration of the dead.
necrologic, necrological:
A reference to necrology.
necrologist:
1. A student of, or a specialist in, necrology.
2. A writer of obituaries. necrologue:
An obituary.
necrology:
1. A list of people who have died recently or during a particular period.
2. A notice of someone’s death; an obituary. 3. The science of the collection, classification, and interpretation of mortality statistics. 4. The study of decomposition, fossilization and other processes affecting plant and animal remains after death. necrolysis:
1. Necrosis and loosening of tissue. Dissolution, separation, or exfoliation of dead tissue.
necromancer, necromantic:
One who claims to have the ability to communicate with the dead as a means of predicting or influencing future events.
necromancy:
1. The practice of attempting to communicate with the spirits of the dead in order to predict or influence the future.
2. Witchcraft or sorcery in general. necromania:
1. A morbid tendency to dwell with a longing for death.
2. A morbid attraction to dead bodies. necrometer:
An instrument for measuring a dead body or any of its parts or organs.
necromimesis:
1. The simulation of death by a mental patient who believes himself/herself to be dead.
2. The pathological delusion in which a person is convinced that he/she is dead. necromorphous:
Feigning the appearance of death, as certain beetles.
necronectomy:
A surgical procedure in which necrotic tissue is removed.
necroparasite:
A parasite that decomposes nonliving organic matter to obtain nutrients that are then absorbed through cell membranes.
necropathy:
A condition or disease process principally characterized by tissue death or gangrene.
necrophagia, necrophagous, necrophage, necrophagy:
Feeding on the flesh of dead animals (carrion) or other dead material; saprophytic.
necrophile, necrophiliac:
A psychotic condition in which a person has sexual arousal when in the presence of dead bodies.
necrophilia, necrophilism, necrophily:
1. Sexual arousal brought about by dead bodies or sexual acts with dead bodies; usually of males with female corpses.
2. A morbid fondness for being in the presence of dead bodies. 3. A paraphilia in which sexual arousal is possible only if the sexual object, whether of the same or opposite sex, is dead. 4. A morbid yearning for death. necrophilous:
Having a preference for dead tissue, a reference to certain bacteria.
necrophobe:
Someone who has an excessive fear of death or of dead bodies.
necrophobia, necrophobic:
A morbid fear of death or of dead bodies (corpses).
necrophoresis:
The transport of dead individuals away from a colony, as with some social insects.
Necrophorus:
A genus of burying beetles.
necrophytophage, necrophytophagy:
The consumption of dead plant materials
necrophytophagous:
Feeding on dead plant material.
necropneumonia:
Gangrene in the lung.
necropolis:
A cemetery; especially a large, elaborate, or ancient one. Literally, “city of the dead.”
necropsy:
Made up of two elements: necro + autopsy. The scientific examination (autopsy) of dead bodies.
necrosadism:
Sexual gratification derived by mutilating corpses.
necroscopy:
Another term for an autopsy of dead bodies.
necrose:
To cause necrosis or to become the site of necrosis.
necroses:
Plural of necrosis.
necrosis, necrotic:
1. The death of cells in a tissue or organ caused by disease or injury.
2. Death or mortification, especially of a bodily tissue, as a result of the loss of blood supply, corrosion, burning, etc. necrospermia:
A condition in which there are dead or immobile sermatozoa in the semen.
necrosteon, necrosteosis:
Gangrene of bone.
necrotic:
Pertaining to or affected by necrosis.
necrotize:
To cause necrosis.
necrotizing:
Causing or undergoing the death of cells (necrosis).
necrotizing facitis:
A severe bacterial infection that causes cell tissue to decay rapidly. This is the “flesh-eating bacterium” sometimes referred to in the media.
necrotomy:
The operation for the removal of a necrosed portion of bone
necrotoxin:
A poison that causes death or one that is a result of death.
necrotrophic symbiosis:
A symbiosis established between two living organisms in which one symbiont contnues to use the other as a food source even after complete or partial death has occurred.
odontonecrosis:
The death of a tooth or part of a tooth or the massive decay of a tooth or teeth.
osteonecrosis:
The death of bone in mass, as distinguished from caries (molecular death) or relatively small foci of necrosis in bone.
osteoradionecrosis:
Necrosis of bone produced by ionizing radiation which may be planned or unplanned.
postnecrosis, postnecrotic:
A reference to the period after the death of a tissue or body part.
phosphonecrosis:
Necrosis of the osseous tissue of the jaw, as a result of poisoning by inhalation of phosphorus fumes, occurring especially in persons who work with the element.
postnecrotic:
Subsequent to the death of a tissue or part of the body.
radionecrosis:
Death caused by excessive exposure to ionizing radiation (x-ray or gamma rays).
rhinonecrosis:
Necrosis of the bones of the nose.
steaonecrosis:
Death of fat tissue.
synnecrosis:
An interaction between individuals or populations so mutually detrimental that it results in death, as in the case of some parasitic relationships.
thrombonecrosis:
Necrosis (death) of the walls of a blood vessel.
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