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Necrosis vs Rot - What's the difference?

necrosis | rot |

As nouns the difference between necrosis and rot

is that necrosis is the localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply while rot is the process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

As a verb rot is

to suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

necrosis

Noun

(necroses)
  • (pathology) The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.
  • Derived terms

    * necrotic

    rot

    English

    Verb

    (rott)
  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
  • To decline in function or utility.
  • To deteriorate in any way.
  • I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
  • * Macaulay
  • Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
  • * Thackeray
  • Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
  • To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
  • to rot vegetable fiber
  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
  • Derived terms

    * potter's rot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
  • * Milton
  • His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
  • Verbal nonsense.
  • Synonyms

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