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necrotizing fasciitis

infection that results in the death of the body's soft tissue
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q1145674
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Summary

necrotizing fasciitis is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,236 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
  • Subclass of: fasciitis[4], necrotizing soft tissue infection[5], disease[6]
  • Commons category: Necrotizing fasciitis[7]
  • ICPC 2 ID: L87[8]
  • ICD-9-CM: 728.86[9]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C84916[10]
  • Health specialty: infectious diseases[11]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9602[12], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:9602[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[14]

Why It Matters

necrotizing fasciitis has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

disease infectious diseases

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 26pER0
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → fasciitis, necrotizing soft tissue infection, disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  3. 18w ago · Sagzhan · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Health specialty → infectious diseases
    Subclass of → fasciitis, necrotizing soft tissue infection, disease
    Instance of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q31193994 */"
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