Usually means: Flesh-eating bacteria destroy soft tissue.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word necrotizing fasciitis:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. necrotizing fasciitis: Merriam-Webster
  2. necrotizing fasciitis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. necrotizing fasciitis: Collins English Dictionary
  4. necrotizing fasciitis: Wiktionary
  5. necrotizing fasciitis: Dictionary.com
  6. Necrotizing fasciitis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. necrotizing fasciitis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. necrotizing fasciitis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Necrotizing fasciitis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Necrotizing fasciitis: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  8. necrotizing fasciitis: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  9. Fasciitis, necrotizing, necrotizing fasciitis: Medical dictionary
  10. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. Necrotizing fasciitis: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (necrotizing fasciitis)

▸ noun:  A severe, fast-spreading infection that results in the death of the body's soft tissue.

Similar:
flesh-eating disease, hospital gangrene, necrobacillosis, gangrene, necrolysis, necrobiosis lipoidica, noma, fasciopathy, infarct, pyoderma gangrenosum, more...

Opposite:
healthy, healing, non-fatal, non-deadly

Types:
Type I, Type II, Type III, Type IV, Type V, Type VI, more...

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Similar:
flesh-eating disease, hospital gangrene, necrobacillosis, gangrene, necrolysis, necrobiosis lipoidica, noma, fasciopathy, infarct, pyoderma gangrenosum, more...

Opposite:
healthy, healing, non-fatal, non-deadly

Types:
Type I, Type II, Type III, Type IV, Type V, Type VI, more...



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