necrotize

To undergo necrosis or cause to necrose.

Causing necrosis; exuding a brown to green, putrid discharge containing tissue debris.

• n. epithelioma, necrotizing calcifying epithelioma — see pilomatrixoma.
• n. hepatopancreatitis — disease of shrimps caused by a small obligate intracellular unidentified bacterium; subacute to chronic syndrome with cumulative mortality of up to 90%.
• n. panniculitis — multifocal, erythematous, nonpruritic cutaneous lesions which ulcerate in the center and discharge seropurulent exudate; identifiable on histopathological examination.
• n. scleritis — a rare eye lesion, inflammatory proliferation of the anterior sclera, in dogs.
• n. ulcerative gingivitis — see necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
• n. vasculitis — important feature of the Arthus reaction; damage to the endothelium results from deposition of immune complexes in the vessel wall, usually on the basement membrane of the endothelium.