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

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

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.

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

If the part is aseptic it shrivels, and presents the ordinary features of dry gangrene.

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

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