Mortification

(-tif-e-ka's hun.) [From L. mortuus, dead, andfacio, I make.] (Med.) The death of one part of the body while the rest continues alive, and often in a sound state. Mortification is called gangrene and sphacelus, when occurring in soft or fleshy parts, as in the stomach or the limbs; and caries when in a bone, as in the spine, the skull, the teeth, . [s. 619]