BioConcepts

necrosisνέκρωσις (gr.); Nekrose (ger.)

• Death of tissue or cells; an instance or area of this. (OED 2003)
  category death see also apoptosis

  c. 100 AD

  Αἱμορραγέει κοτὲ κύστις· ξανθόντε καὶ λεπτὸν τῇδε τὸ αἷμα· ἀλλ' οὐδέν τι διὰ τήνδε θνήσκουσι, κἂν μὴῥΗϊδίη ἡἐπίσχεσις· ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τοῖσι θρόμβοισι καὶ τῇ φλεγμονῇὁ κίνδυνος. ψύξις γὰρ καὶ νέκρωσις, καὶ γαγγραινώσιες, καὶ τὰἐπὶ τῇδε κακὰῥΗϊδίως κτείνει. [The bladder also sometimes suffers from hemorrhage; the blood there is bright and thin, but the patients never die from it, although it may not be easy to stop. But from the clots and the inflammation there is danger; for the coldness, mortification, gangrene, and the other evils consequent upon it readily prove fatal.]

  Aretaios, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (The Extant Works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian, ed. F. Adams, London 1856): 44 (book II, ch. 10) (transl. by F. Adams); cf. Digital Hippocrates (www.chlt.org/hippocrates/).

  1554

  necrosis

  Aretaios (1554). Medici lib. VIII: 65.

  1578

  telia necrosis

  Roch Le Baillif (1578). Le Demosterion: 126.

  1583

  Gangrena and Syderatio, which the Grecians call necrosis and sphacelus.

  Barrough, P. (1583). Methode of Phisicke: 231 (acc. to OED 2011).

  1665

  Necrosis or inward Mortification

  Nedham, M. (1665). Medela Medicinæ: 410 (acc. to OED 2011).