dry gangrene

American  

noun

1. death of tissue owing to arterial obstruction without subsequent bacterial decomposition and putrefaction.

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Etymology

Origin of dry gangrene

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Then there’s Roxana, an undocumented woman with no coverage who receives emergency surgery on a life-threatening tumor only to wake up with dry gangrene, leaving her arms and legs decayed and useless.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

Haematoma and dry gangrene of the ears in animals born of parents in which these ear-alterations had been caused by an injury to the restiform body near the nib of the calamus. 7th.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

In dry gangrene moist heat in the form of poultices or anointing the tissue with oils and fats will be found beneficial in hastening the dead tissue to slough off.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Hæmatoma and dry gangrene of the ears in animals born of parents in which these ear-alterations had been caused by an injury to the restiform body near the nib of the calamus.

From Essays on Life, Art and Science by Butler, Samuel

When gangrene occurs, it is treated on the same lines as other forms of dry gangrene, but if amputation is called for it is only with a view to removing the dead part.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis