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say it: nuh-KROH-suhs
necrosis is a noun meaning "the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)". It carries one recorded sense.
the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for necrosis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.