What's the difference between death and necrobiosis?

Death


Definition:

  • (v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
  • (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
  • (v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
  • (v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
  • (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
  • (v. i.) Danger of death.
  • (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
  • (v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
  • (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
  • (2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
  • (3) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
  • (4) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
  • (5) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (7) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
  • (8) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
  • (9) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
  • (10) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (11) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (12) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
  • (13) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
  • (14) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
  • (15) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (16) There were no deaths attributable to the treatment.
  • (17) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
  • (18) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (19) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
  • (20) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.

Necrobiosis


Definition:

  • (n.) The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Towards the end of the observation period erosions of cartilage, pannus formation and periarticular foci of purulent necrobiosis were found.
  • (2) The identity between necrobiosis lipoidica with other chronic granulomatous diseases and the possible treatment of this benign but long-term process is briefly discussed.
  • (3) RN tended to show homogeneous, eosinophilic necrobiosis, giant cells within palisaded foci, and significant stromal fibrosis; while lesions of SGA showed pale, edematous necrobiosis, an absence of giant cells, and lesser degrees of fibrosis.
  • (4) In one out of the three dogs with combined operation, scattered foci of necrobiotic sinus node cells and necrobiosis of the medial smooth muscle cells in sinus node arteries were also observed.
  • (5) These findings support a vascular origin of necrobiosis lipoidica, involving reduced vascular perfusion combined with diffusion block.
  • (6) However, it has not been associated previously with necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (NBL), a rare skin manifestation of diabetes mellitus.
  • (7) Statistically significant hypoxia was found in the area of necrobiosis lipoidica, which was even more pronounced in the inflamed border.
  • (8) Cortisone-herapin and cortisone-maltose tetrapalmitate (MTP) treatments induced focal areas of tumor necrosis and necrobiosis, whereas cortisone alone caused necrobiosis.
  • (9) A diabetic patient is described presenting psoriasis, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, granuloma annulare, and vitiligo and with a history of recurrent erysipelas and mycotic infections.
  • (10) In patients with portal cirrhosis, sclerotic changes rather than necrobiosis was observed in the pancreas.
  • (11) A case of necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (NLD) in a 12-year-old male patient is described.
  • (12) Finally, in six elliptical biopsies extending into clinically normal skin, we demonstrated that the inflammatory infiltrate of necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum extended from the lesion into apparently normal skin surrounding clinically active lesions.
  • (13) Our report describes a 52-year-old female patient with bilateral foci of necrobiosis lipoidica in pretibial scars.
  • (14) Results of an open trial of platelet inhibitor treatment for necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum suggest the possible importance of abnormal platelet function in this disease.
  • (15) Common features included extensive hyaline necrobiosis and foreign-body giant cells.
  • (16) We confirmed that cutaneous anesthesia is usually present in the necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum lesions.
  • (17) Liver function test showed signs of moderate necrobiosis with impaired biliary acid metabolism.
  • (18) The associations between the granulomatous disorders of the skin, especially necrobiosis lipoidica, sarcoidosis and granuloma annulare, are discussed.
  • (19) A statistically significantly higher number of these cells was found within the epidermis in necrobiosis lipoidica compared with granuloma annulare and normal skin.
  • (20) Tissue hypoxia and an infection, arising against this background, lead to the expansion of necrobiosis and to the occurrence of trophic ulcers.

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