Researchers explore whether helping make better scar tissue in your heart could be a possible alternative to re-growing new tissue. Heart disease is the number one cause of death globally, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), affecting millions of people every year.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Necrosis. Necrosis is a form of cell injury that results in the premature death of cells in living tissue. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma that result in the unregulated digestion of cell components.
lymphadenoid tissue tissue resembling that of lymph nodes, spleen, bone marrow, tonsils, and lymph vessels. lymphoid tissue a latticework of reticular tissue whose interspaces contain lymphocytes. mesenchymal tissue embryonic connective tissue composed of stellate cells and a ground substance of coagulable fluid.he lymphoid tissue of the body, collectively; it consists of the bone marrow, thymus, lymph nodes, spleen, and gut-associated lymphoid tissue (tonsils, Peyer's patches). lymphoid tissue.