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gangrene
[ gang-green, gang-green ]
noun
- necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
- moral or spiritual corruption and decadence that pervades an individual or group:
“This church body has been afflicted with a spiritual gangrene that is poisoning our relationship with the Lord,†the preacher expostulated.
Synonyms: , , ,
verb (used with or without object)
- to affect or become affected with gangrene.
gangrene
/ ˈɡæŋɡriËn; ˈɡæŋɡrɪnÉ™s /
noun
- death and decay of tissue as the result of interrupted blood supply, disease, or injury
- moral decay or corruption
verb
- to become or cause to become affected with gangrene
gangrene
/ ²µÄƒ²Ô²µâ€²²µ°ùŧ²Ô′ /
- Death of tissue in a living body, especially in a limb, caused by a bacterial infection resulting from a blockage of the blood supply to the affected tissue.
gangrene
- The death and decay of body tissue owing to insufficient supply of blood .
Derived Forms
- gangrenous, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²µ²¹²Ô·²µ°ù±ð·²Ô´Ç³Ü²õ [gang, -gr, uh, -n, uh, s], adjective
- ²Ô´Ç²Ô·²µ²¹²Ôg°ù±ð·²Ô´Ç³Ü²õ adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²µ²¹²Ôg°ù±ð²Ô±ð»å adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²µ²¹²Ôg°ù±ð·²Ô´Ç³Ü²õ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of gangrene1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of gangrene1
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Example Sentences
Nursing employees told the investigators that the 69-year-old man, who had been admitted with gangrene on his feet, was often confused and sometimes tried to pull out his tubes.
"One foot was so badly damaged that it had to be amputated. We tried to avoid the amputation, but it had to be performed as the foot had gangrene in the bone," he said.
By World War II, even as scientists were manufacturing gallons of phages to combat cholera, dysentery, and gangrene in Stalingrad and Leningrad, much the West had given up on phages.
Her lower legs were amputated after she developed gangrene at age 7.
It was in Chicago in 1971, and the man had gotten drunk and passed out in the snow, his fingers so frozen that gangrene eventually set in.
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