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Noun: mumification necrosis
  1. (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown colour
    "The patient's untreated frostbite led to mumification necrosis in his toes";
    - dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mummification

Type of: gangrene, slough, sphacelus