carnification
/ˌkɑɹnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pathological process in which chronic inflammation or infection causes lung tissue to organize into a fibrous form that resembles meat, which can lead to a loss of normal lung function.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The process of something nonphysical taking on a physical form (not necessarily involving flesh).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Carnification is held to be most common in new-born children; after the fifth year it is comparatively unfrequent in occurrence; whilst in adults it is very rarely met with; but in aged people again becomes more common , though still less so than in early life."
- "The lesions alluded to are those which have been hitherto described under the names of lobular pneumonia and carnification."
- "The physical signs of carnification of the lower lobe of a lung and those of a small pleural effusion are the same, excepting that the chest may be distended on one side, and the heart be displaced away from the disease in some cases of local pleural effusion."
- "Fig. 3.31: Chronic organizing pneumonia ("carnification" ) ."
- "One grade of inflammatory irritation produces carnification or hepatization of the medullary tissue, another grade suppuration, and a still higher degree of inflammatory irritation produces gangrene of that tissue."
- "The liver was not cirrhosed, as he had believed, but was in a state of carnification."
Etymology
Compare French carnification.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkɑɹnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- British English: /ˌkɑːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/