1.   An autopsy revealed patches of dead tissue in his heart muscle, or myocardial necrosis, which was listed as the cause of death.

2.   As one example, its ability to detect tiny temperature changes could allow surgeons to tell living tissue from dead tissue or pinpoint blockages in blood vessels.

3.   Bedsores initially show up as a red spot, the tip of a growing cone of dead tissue that can eat through the muscle to the bone.

4.   A brown recluse spider bit him on the forehead, and Backman may have to undergo a second surgery to remove the dead tissue.

5.   Botrytis overwinters on dead tissue, so clean up any fallen leaves and other debris each fall.

6.   But because dead tissue has no blood supply, the organism cannot be reached by antibiotics.

7.   Certain diseases and injuries can lead to accumulations of dead tissue, pus and fibrin clots that delay or prevent healing.

8.   Every day, masked attendants hoisted him into a stainless-steel tub brimming with bleach-treated water and scraped the dead tissue from his burns.

9.   For a while it shed large chunks of dead tissue and a brown fluid totally unlike anything I had ever seen emerge from my body.

10.   In a few weeks that dead tissue is reabsorbed by the body, leaving less flesh and more room for breathing.