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

They are precisely similar to the cumulative effects of a salt diet in producing scurvy, or of spurred rye in producing dry gangrene.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If protected from infection, the clinical course is that of dry gangrene.

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

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.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

The tissue surrounding the moist gangrenous patch is usually inflamed, swollen, and hot, but this is less noticeable in the case of dry gangrene.

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