Bible Dictionaries
Necrosis

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.

(2):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Necrosis'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​n/necrosis.html. 1828.