carnification

1. (medicine) 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.Examples: "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."countableuncountable

2. (medicine, botany) A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense.Examples: "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."; "From this condition the marrow may return to its normal state, or the carnification may be the stage prior to and immediately preceding suppuration."countableuncountable