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Necrosis vs Sorosis - What's the difference?

necrosis | sorosis |

As nouns the difference between necrosis and sorosis

is that necrosis is (pathology) the localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply while sorosis is (botany) any multiple fleshy fruit that is derived from the ovaries of multiple flowers.

necrosis

English

(wikipedia necrosis)

Noun

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

    • Derived terms

    * necrotic

    Related terms

    * necrobiosis

    sorosis

    English

    Noun

    (soroses)
  • (botany) Any multiple fleshy fruit that is derived from the ovaries of multiple flowers
  • (dated) A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.
  • * 1869 , Putnam's Magazine (volume 3, page 640)
    • Yet these women were not a clique, nor a sect, nor a Sorosis , but all our wives, and sisters, and daughters, and lovers. They were just the common lot
  • * 1890 , John Van Valkenburg, Jewels of Pythian Knighthood
    • They gathered up all the privacies of the city and poured them into his ear, and his family became a sorosis , or female debating society of seven hundred, discussing, day after day, all the difficulties between husbands and wives