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UK
/ɡˈæŋɡɹiːn/
]
[ US /ˈɡænɡɹin/ ]
[ US /ˈɡænɡɹin/ ]
VERB
-
undergo necrosis
the tissue around the wound necrosed
NOUN
- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
How To Use gangrene In A Sentence
- The presence of deep infection with abscess, cellulitis, gangrene, or osteomyelitis is an indication for hospitalization and prompt surgical drainage.
- Enfin pourrait-on dire, l´occident, après des décennies de surdité, en vient lentement à combattre ce fléau criminel économique qui gangrène autant le développement de l´Afrique qu´il engraisse l´illégalité fiscale en Europe et de par le monde. Global Voices in English » Paris court investigates three African leaders
- He subsequently contracted gangrene and had one leg amputated below his knee. Times, Sunday Times
- Dr. Rabinowitch examined him and his foot was black with gangrene from the ankle down. To the Top of the World With the Eastern Arctic Patrol
- They tried to freeze the gangrene from spreading.
- In 1993, four patients with dry gangrene of two thumbs induced by electrical burn in our department were treated with free thumb flap and transplantation of the second toe.
- Rarely, fulminant ischaemic colitis occurs with gangrene or perforation and needs urgent surgical exploration.
- There were 35 patients with thromboangiitis obliterans(TAO), including 16 IC and 19 limb gangrenes.
- Because this being all our hope, against this point did the devil make a vehement stand, and at one time he was wholly subverting it, at another his word was that it was "past already;" which also Paul writing to Timothy called a gangrene, I mean, this wicked doctrine, and those that brought it in he branded, saying, NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
- If blood vessels are damaged, people can suffer an affection gangrene.