Home › Words › P › pyronecrosispyronecrosispyronecrosis means A variant of pyroptosis that requires a caspase.EtymologyFrom pyro- + necrosis.nounA variant of pyroptosis that requires a caspase.e.g.“Pyroptosis and pyronecrosis differ from each other, e.g. by activating factors and the dependence of caspase-1 [ 34 ].” — 2008 September 13, Antero Salminen et al., “Amyloid-β oligomers set fire to inflammasomes and induce Alzheimer's pathology”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 12, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).