gangrenous
- a word derived from gangrene.
Example Sentences
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Patients arrived with gangrenous foot wounds that harried providers elsewhere brushed off as athlete’s foot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
The designation is intended to attract more research and funding for curbing the disease, also known as cancrum oris and gangrenous stomatitis.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023
When we joined the volunteers for a day, she was quick to check the lower leg of an evacuee with a blackened, gangrenous wound.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2022
Cause of death was gangrenous infection and sepsis.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
He was brought here from Gettysburg with serious wounds which became gangrenous before his arrival.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
