gangrene

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  1. noun Death and decay of body tissue, often occurring in a limb, caused by insufficient blood supply and usually following injury or disease.
  2. transitive and intransitive verb To affect or become affected with gangrene.

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  • They explained that the gangrene was caused by bacilli multiplying deep down in his arm, breeding death, right now. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • Risks? As with any amputation, infection and gangrene were always a concern, but they would monitor him carefully; and anyway, it wasn't as if the body had to make it very long before it became dispensable. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#211
  • Its snout seemed to be afflicted with advanced gangrene, and the remaining teeth were crumbling around their canes. —  Centaur Aisle
  • ↑ In conventional understanding, gangrene is the localised death of body tissue due to loss of its blood supply. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Dry gangrene is usually the result of an injury that affects blood supply. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Medieval Latin cancrēna, from Latin gangraena, gangrēna, from Greek gangraina.

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  1. Formerly gangreen; from Old French gangrene, French gangrène = Spanish Portuguese gangrena = Italian gangrena, cancrena, cangrena, from Latin gangræna, from Greek γάγγραινα, a gangrene, an eating sore, a redupl. form, from γραίνειν, γράειν, gnaw. Cf. Sanskrit √ gar, gir, swallow.
  2. from gangrene, n.
 

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