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gangrene

ˈgængrin
WordNet
  1. (v) gangrene
    undergo necrosis "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
  2. (n) gangrene
    the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
  3. (n) gangrene
    necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Gangrene
    (Med) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
  2. Gangrene
    To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) gangrene
    In pathology, a necrosis or mortification of soft tissues when the parts affected become dry, hard, and dark in color (dry gangrene or mummification), or when, remaining soft and moist, the parts fall a prey to septic organisms and undergo putrefaction (moist gangrene or sphacelus).
  2. (n) gangrene
    In botany, a disease ending in putrid decay.
  3. gangrene
    To produce a gangrene in; mortify; hence, figuratively, to cause decay or destruction in.
  4. gangrene
    To become mortified.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Gangrene
    gang′grēn loss of vitality in some part of the body: the first stage in mortification
  2. (v.t) Gangrene
    to mortify
  3. (v.i) Gangrene
    to become putrid
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. gangrène, L. gangraena, fr. Gr. , fr. to gnaw, eat; cf. Skr. gras, gar, to devour, and E. voracious, also canker, (n.), in sense 3

Usage in the news

After a compound fracture suffered in a football game got infected with gangrene, the McLouth High senior had his leg amputated on Thursday. tonganoxiemirror.com

2 Blumberg Rs, Kelsey P. Cytomegalovirus and cryptosporidium-associated acalculous gangrenous cholecystitis . thelancet.com

A US Army veteran is suing the government for $10 million, alleging a nurse at a veteran's hospital repeatedly put ice packs on his penis after surgery, causing frostbite and gangrene and ultimately leading to the organ's partial amputation. cbsnews.com

Conditions at Lexington, Blue Grass Airport, KY. An Army veteran says a Veterans Administration nurse repeatedly put ice packs on his penis after surgery, causing frostbite and gangrene and ultimately led to the organ's amputation. kyt.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized yesterday to undergo surgery to have part of her right leg amputated because gangrene was setting in, a representative said. columbiatribune.com

Unfortunately, Gangrene spent their photo budget on weed. laweekly.com

The latter's diverse family includes botulism and gangrene bacteria , along with many harmless bugs. ashingtonpost.com

1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develop after his appendix ruptures (More info). kbear.com

Usage in literature

Unskilful army medical handling had left it gangrened, and it had swollen. "Golden Lads" by Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason

The gangrene antitoxin is injected to prevent the development of gangrene poisoning. "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights" by Kelly Miller

If it isn't attended to, soon, gangrene may set in. "The Forbidden Trail" by Honoré Willsie

They became gangrenous halfway to the knee, and her father had been obliged to chop them both off. "A Labrador Doctor" by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

No ventilation and practically all with Spanish influenza and, in addition, many with gangrenous wounds. "The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki" by Joel R. Moore

After my third week, an epidemic of hospital gangrene broke out in my ward. "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866" by Various

The gangrenous action may, in proportion to the low condition of the patient, be as proportionately rapid. "History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present" by Peter Charles Remondino

He set forth in most eloquent terms the dangers of fever, of gangrene, of haemorrhage. "The Scalp Hunters" by Mayne Reid

If you'd seen her and lived with her as I have, year out and year in, you'd know her love of money has eat into her soul and gangrened it. "Flamsted quarries" by Mary E. Waller

Three days later, the wounded man was begging to be killed; one arm and one leg were gangrenous. "Despoilers of the Golden Empire" by Gordon Randall Garrett

Usage in poetry
When oblivion reigns supreme,
Down the endless aisles of chaos,
All things become alike gangrene,
In the land where spirit leaves us.
I dress the perforated shoulder, the foot with the bullet-wound,
Cleanse the one with a gnawing and putrid gangrene, so sickening,
so offensive,
While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.