dry gangrene

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of dry gangrene¹

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.

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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.

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When diseased rye of this kind is eaten in food for some time, it sometimes causes death by a kind of mortification called dry gangrene.

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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.

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I have seen dry gangrene in the human subject originate apparently from an old "frost bite;" which means merely chronic debility of the capillaries of the foot or shin.

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