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hospital gangrene
noun
- Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hospital gangrene1
First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences
Such terrible scourges as pyaemia and hospital gangrene were rife in all of them.
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Scurvy, diarrhea, dysentery, and hospital gangrene were the prevailing diseases.
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After my third week, an epidemic of hospital gangrene broke out in my ward.
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Scurvy and hospital gangrene frequently existed in the same individual.
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In such cases, vegetable diet, with vegetable acids, would remove the scorbutic condition without curing the hospital gangrene.
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